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    We were prepared to expect a delightful book from an author who declares nimself to nave " a passion for human faces , " an intense love of beauty , and a " reckless love of adventure . " To those who have acquired the habit of making a rapid observation of every countenance they see , and whose practice in that most interesting study has been eventually brought to a precision which enables them to form , in most instances , a pretty accurate estimate of general chanffcter , the acquirement

    of knowledge must be very considerable in travelling , as the interest to the reader of such travels must be greatly enhanced . To the passion for beauty in a writer , we shall also refer our anticipations of poetical description , and from any announcement savouring of a love of adventure in one who has visited countries of" romantic aptitudes , " our imaginations are naturally excited in no ordinary degree . In the state of mind induced by all these " foregone conclusions , " it would have

    been no wonder if the result had greatly disappointed us . It is only justice to the author of this most amusing work , to say , that he has quite realized all our expectations . We think a few selections from his capital sketches of character , adventure , and scenery , will speedily give the reader a favourable idea of the interest which we have found continuous throughout these volumes .

    Forbearance Smith , commonly called Job Smith , is a fine sketch of a noble specimen of humanity . Accompanying the author under his assumed name of Philip Slingsby through most of his adventures , his character is sustained throughout , never failing in its grand simplicity . But Mr . Slingsby shall introduce him : —

    " He was a Vermonteae , a descendant of one of the puritan pilgrims , and the first of his family who had left the Green Mountains since the flight of the regicides to America . We assimilate to what we live among , and Forbearance was very green and very like a mountain .

    He had a general resemblance to one of Thorwaldsen ' s unfinished apostles—larger than life , and just hewn into outline . My acquaintonce with him commenced during my first year at the university . He stalked into my room one morning with o hair trunk on his back , and handed me the following note from the tutor : —

    'Sir—The faculty have decided to impose upon you the fine of ten dollars and damages , for painting the President ' s horae on Sabbath night , while ^ &zin £ on the College Green . They , moreover , have removed Freshman Wilding from your rooms , and appoint as your

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    INKLINGS OF ADVENTURED

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/24/