MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.
Reading for Travellers.
JUST PUBLISHED, OLD ROADS AND NEW ROADS.
PRICE ONE SHILLING.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
_The Daily News._
"Knowledge and amusement are very happily blended together, and the
reader who finds his acquaintance with the history of roads increased
at the end of his journey, will also find his available fund of
anecdote augmented."
_The Literary Gazette._
"The book contains little more than a hundred pages, and might be read
during the journey by the express train between London and Brighton;
but so suggestive is every page, that an intelligent and imaginative
reader will not reach the end till the book has been many an hour in
his hands."
_The Economist._
"This is a pleasant book, somewhat quaint, particularly the preface,
but full of amusing and instructive reading."
_The Atlas._
"If the other volumes of the series are equal to the present in
interest and value, we think we may safely predict a very extensive
popularity for the enterprise.... The author has collected from all
manner of curious and out-of-the-way sources materials for his book,
and it reads like one of old Montaigne's Essays."
_The Leader._
"A charming volume of curious and learned gossip, such as would have
riveted Charles Lamb by its fine scholarly tone and its discursive
wealth. If the other volumes are up to this mark, the series will be
by far the best of the many which now make Literature the luxury of
the poor."
_The Gardeners' Chronicle._
"Exactly the book for the amusement of a man of education. Lively and
learned, poetical and practical. This book is to the scholar fatigued
with trash like a bottle of rich Hungarian wine to a man who has been
condemned to the thin potations of France and the Rheingau."
_The Gateshead Observer._
"_Old Roads and New Roads._--(Chapman and Hall, London.) No. I. of
'Reading for Travellers.' A first-rate little volume, printed with
large type, and just the thing for a railway ride. The publishers have
acted wisely in calling to their aid a scholar and a writer of the
highest order."
_The Leicestershire Mercury._
"Messrs. Chapman and Hall have re-entered the field of Railway
Literature, and have very fittingly commenced their series of 'Reading
for Travellers' with a graphic historical sketch of _Old Roads and New
Roads_. It is at once scholarly and popular in style and
contents----yet free from the slightest tinge of pedantry or
affectation. The narrative is by no means a mere dry record of facts
and dates. It is abundantly diversified and relieved with illustrative
anecdotes and sprightly observations--philosophy and pleasantry
combining with genuine erudition to make this one of the most useful
and entertaining of the volumes of railway reading with which we have
met."
MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.
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