"The last part of the book is a statement of the author's observations upon English life and society; and it is this portion, which the English critics affect to be so deeply offended with. The most objectionable passage in this is the account of a dinner at Lady Blessington's. Unquestionably Mr. Moore's remarks about Mr. O'Connell ought not to have been reported, considering the time when, and the place where, they were uttered; though they contain nothing new about the great Agitator, the secrets disclosed being well known to some millions of people who interest themselves in British politics, and read the British newspapers. We close our remarks on this work by referring our readers to a capital scene on board a Scotch steamboat, and a breakfast at Professor Wilson's, the famous editor of Blackwood, both in the second volume, which we regret our inability to quote." "Every impartial reader must confess, that for so young a man, Mr. Willis has done much to promote the reputation of American literature. His position at present is surrounded with every incentive to a noble ambition. With youth and health to sustain him under labor; with much knowledge of the world acquired by travel and observation, to draw upon; with a mature style, and a hand practised in various forms of composition, Mr. Willis's genius ought to take a wider and higher range than it has ever done before. We trust we shall meet him again, ere long, in the paths of literature; and we trust that he will take it kindly, if we express the hope, that he will lay aside those tendencies to exaggeration, and to an unhealthy tone of sentiment, which mar the beauty of some of his otherwise most agreeable books." CONTENTS. PAGE LETTER I. Getting under Way--The Gulf Stream--Aspect of the Ocean-- Formation of a Wave--Sea Gems--The Second Mate, 11 LETTER II. A Dog at Sea--Dining, with a High Sea--Sea Birds--Tandem of Whales--Speaking a Man-of-War--Havre, 18 LETTER III. Havre--French Bed-room--The Cooking--Chance Impressions, 25 LETTER IV. Pleasant Companion--Normandy--Rouen--Eden of Cultivation--St. Denis--Entrance to Paris--Lodgings--Walk of Discovery--Palais Royal, 30 LETTER V. Gallery of the Louvre--Greenough--Feeling as a Foreigner-- Solitude in the Louvre--Louis Philippe--The Poles--Napoleon II, 40 LETTER VI. Taglioni--French Acting--French Applause--Leontine Fay, 48 LETTER VII. Lelewel--Pére La Chaise--Pauvre Marie--Versailles--The Trianons--Josephine's Boudoir--Time and Money at Paris--Wives and Fuel--One Price Shops, 53 LETTER VIII.