MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.
Reading for Travellers.
JUST PUBLISHED,
OLD ROADS AND NEW ROADS.
PRICE ONE SHILLING.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
The Daily News.
“Knowledge and amusement are very happily blended together, and thereader who finds his acquaintance with the history of roads increasedat the end of his journey, will also find his available fund ofanecdote augmented.”
The Literary Gazette.
“The book contains little more than a hundred pages, and might be readduring the journey by the express train between London and Brighton;but so suggestive is every page, that an intelligent and imaginativereader will not reach the end till the book has been many an hour inhis hands.”
The Economist.
“This is a pleasant book, somewhat quaint, particularly the preface,but full of amusing and instructive reading.”
The Atlas.
“If the other volumes of the series are equal to the present ininterest and value, we think we may safely predict a very extensivepopularity for the enterprise.... The author has collected from allmanner of curious and out-of-the-way sources materials for his book,and it reads like one of old Montaigne’s Essays.”
The Leader.
“A charming volume of curious and learned gossip, such as would haveriveted Charles Lamb by its fine scholarly tone and its discursivewealth. If the other volumes are up to this mark, the series will beby far the best of the many which now make Literature the luxury ofthe poor.”
The Gardeners’ Chronicle.
“Exactly the book for the amusement of a man of education. Lively andlearned, poetical and practical. This book is to the scholar fatiguedwith trash like a bottle of rich Hungarian wine to a man who has beencondemned to the thin potations of France and the Rheingau.”
The Gateshead Observer.
“Old Roads and New Roads.—(Chapman and Hall, London.) No. I. of‘Reading for Travellers.’ A first-rate little volume, printed withlarge type, and just the thing for a railway ride. The publishers haveacted wisely in calling to their aid a scholar and a writer of thehighest order.”
The Leicestershire Mercury.
“Messrs. Chapman and Hall have re-entered the field of RailwayLiterature, and have very fittingly commenced their series of ‘Readingfor Travellers’ with a graphic historical sketch of Old Roads and NewRoads. It is at once scholarly and popular in style andcontents——yet free from the slightest tinge of pedantry oraffectation. The narrative is by no means a mere dry record of factsand dates. It is abundantly diversified and relieved with illustrativeanecdotes and sprightly observations—philosophy and pleasantrycombining with genuine erudition to make this one of the most usefuland entertaining of the volumes of railway reading with which we havemet.”
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