The Nooks and Byways of Italy. By Craufurd Tait Ramage,
LL.D. (Liverpool : Howell.)--This is a record of a most interesting journey undertaken forty years ago, through the southern portions of the Italian peninsula, and our author informs us that he has been deterred from publishing his "Notes" by the fear of bringing trouble on some of his friends at the hands of a suspicious government. Of any other country the impressions recorded so long ago would probably be of little value at the present time, but the traveller of to-day in Apulia and Calabria would find the inhabitants of those seldom-travelled regions totally un- changed. Dr. Ramage's descriptions of scenery and localities are very vivid, and his book will be found both interesting and valuable to the antiquary, the lover of nature, and the more travelling idler.
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