PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
Notes Abroad and Rhapsodies at Howe, "by a Veteran Tra- veller," is a work which we cannot exactly make out from our present reading. The author has strong character, which is always something ; lie is a zealous Protestant and a true-barn Englishman, which are something too; he has peculiarities and boldness, that will be called, according to the temper and feelings of the caller, prejudice or independence, confidence or originality. It is evident that, whilst yielding nothing to authority himself, he "speaks as one having authority ;" and that he would stretch it over very many subjects—the various branches of art, literature, murals, manners, politics, and faith. It would also seem that our Veteran Traveller is a veteran writer, and is sore with certain critics for judging a book of his without reading it ; though their censure, which he repays in kind, was in a measure made up by the "approbation" of several other journals—"approbation the more flattering because temperate and discriminating." What the book was, who these critics were, we have no means of telling; nor can we yet decide whether the natural characteristics of the Veteran are sufficient to throw novelty and interest over such hackneyed subjects as Italy and Switzerland. If they be, we will duly report it to the world.
Besides the "Notes and Rhapsodies," we have another book of Travels on our table,—Mr. SLADE'S Turkey, Greece, and Malta; a work which want of space has prevented us from doing justice to this week, but which we can recommend as an animated medley of observation, reflection, and disquisition,—although the author has taken advantage of his "power of language," and of the credit he acquired by his Records in the East, to tell his readers a great deal more of what he thought than what he saw ; and we must say that we think his eyes better on this occasion than his head.
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