Personally Conducted. By Frank R. Stockton. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The
author of- " Rudder Grange" in the character of a tourist's guide is a surprising but pleasing novelty. He goes with the reader, as with the traveller, step by step and hand in hand, but is far ahead of him in knowledge, and the easy readiness of quick association that is a delightful accompaniment and a potent help. Nothing is overlooked, and no place is overdone. The personal conductor begins with Avignon and the wonderful Pont de Gard, goes on to Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples and around its bay, Florence, Venice, Switzerland, Paris, and London, ending with the Low Countries and the Rhine. He makes this grand tour truly delightful, touching all his topics deftly and lightly, insinuating acquaintance with them to those readers who may not have it, and awakening memory in those who have.
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