Travels and Sketches of Scenery from Chambers's Repository and Miscellany

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... good maps inserted in them; whereas those which are given have these good maps left out. Moreover, the book is wanting in tabulation and convenience of reference. We hope that if this Tract meets the eye of the conductors of the tourists' traffic, they will receive the criticism in a friendly spirit, and strive to make the green paper-book as good as the green and silvered cloth-book. We may mention that Mr and Mrs S. C. Hall, who have done so much in their various publications to render Ireland familiar and interesting to the English, have divided their large book on Ireland into four nice little volumes, devoted respectively to the north, south, east, and west, and revised by information brought down to the present year: there is a snugness and elegance iu these compact little pocket-books. Fraser's Handbook bears some such relation to Ireland as Black's does to Scotland. Then there are Wild's Boyne and Blaekwater; Wakeman's Irish Antiquities; White's Connemara; White's Wicklow; Windele's South of Ireland; Handbook to Carlinyford Bay; Fraser's Handbook for Killarney; Week in the South of Ireland; Wakeman's Three Hays on the Shannon; Week in the West of Ireland; North of Ireland, and how to See it; Dublin and its Environs; and a host of others. Nor are the railways without their travelling-charts and picturesque handbooks. Even Walsh's Irish Hailway-guide, which was before a tolerably cheap pennyworth, has in this busy year been rendered still cheaper by thirty-two paa'es of a description of Dublin. Such are the facilities offered in 1853 to those who would visit Ireland from the sister isle; and we shall now attempt to shew what are the sights and scenes and contrasts which present themselves to a visitor. It is not as a guide-book that this Tract is wr...