A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the
Morea, is a specimen of how easily a book of travels may be now-a-days made, and an example to refrain from doing it hereafter. Mr. Gar- man was ordered to pass the sharper months of the winter in a warm climate. On the 3d of January 1836, he embarked at Fal- mouth, in a Post-office packet ; passed the coast of Portugal in a fog, and Lisbon at night ; spent four hours at Cadiz, and two or three days at Gibraltar ; looked at Malta from the harbour; gave a week or so to the Ionian Isles, and some five weeks to a tour in Greece ; where he, and a brother Oxonian who accompanied him, passed their time in visiting the remains of classical antiquity, and observing the manners of the natives. Of course, in such a rapid tour over scenes described so often, nothing new was to be disco- vered, and nothing very striking to be sketched ; but the book is better than could have been expected. Mr. G1FFARD IS y01111q, ardent, and unaffected ; and has imparted the spirit of those quali- ties to his narrative ; which will also be found a useful hand-book to those inclined to follow his steps.
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