More Books of the Week (Continued from page 426.) Porridge
is ' an excellent and worthy diet—sustaining: -satisfying, but, if absorbed in quantity, just a trifle dull, airy, here is a species of Pyrenean porridge provided in osier: whelming quantity in Mr. Robson's A Wayfarer in tie Pyrenees (Methuen, 7s. ad.). -Moat surely does the book furnish
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'everything the way of -clase-packed and fine-sifted blot. oration that the ordinary' waYfaring- man ought to ask, but it is an uncommonly dyspeptic mass. With some judgment; however—for it is a region not so well known as it deserves_ Mr. Robson descants with special fullness on what is to be seen and 'looked for at the eastern end of the range • but with the recollection that on the west there once lived. Hugo at St. Jean, Rostand at Cambo, and Lai at Hendaye, could lie not have imparted a little more lightness and grace to hit book ?
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