CRITICISMS UPON THIS WORK. From Hon. ALEXANDER D. FRAZER. SIR: You will do the public a service in bringing out your contemplated book edition of the Magazine of Travel. Having been a subscriber to the work from the beginning, I am prepared to speak of it from personal knowledge; and I can truly say, that in no periodical of the day have I been more interested, and that no periodical has received a more cordial welcome in my family. We have always looked for it with the greatest interest, and it was never laid aside until read through. I most cheerfully commend it to the reading public, feeling assured that it will meet an appreciative reception. The countries traversed by the authors are some of the most interesting on the globe, and the reader will find a treasure in the information they have gathered, the value of which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. Having recently taken the tour of Europe, I am surprised to find how minutely my decorintions of Dr. Duffield: and had DEAR SIR: From Prof H. S. Frieze, of the Michigan University. Ann Arbor, May 1st, 1858. I have learned with pleasure that you contemplate the publication of the first volume of "The Magazine of Travel" in book form. The contributions to this volume have embraced a wide and varied sphere of observation, imparting much new and valuable information, and lending a fresh and lively interest even to places and objects already familiar to the general reader through former letters and books of travel. The work will be a valuable acquisition to our rapidly increasing literature of travel, and I trust it will meet with the favorable reception it so richly deserves. Yours, truly, H. S. FRIEZE. Your oDeurent servant, E. C. SEAMAN. From Hon. Ross WILKINS. Having perused with pleasure portions of the Magazine of Travel, edited by Mr. Isham, I would commend the same to the reading public as an interesting book, which will be profitable to the general reader, and especially to the young. DETROIT, April 14, 1858. ROSS WILKINS. CRITICISMS UPON THIS WORK. From Hon. ALEXANDER D. FRAZER. SIR: You will do the public a service in bringing out your contemplated book edition of the Magazine of Travel. Having been a subscriber to the work from the beginning, I am prepared to speak of it from personal knowledge; and I can truly say, that in no periodical of the day have I been more interested, and that no periodical has received a more cordial welcome in my family. We have always looked for it with the greatest interest, and it was never laid aside until read through. I most cheerfully commend it to the reading public, feeling assured that it will meet an appreciative reception. The countries traversed by the authors are some of the most interesting on the globe, and the reader will find a treasure in the information they have gathered, the value of which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. Having recently taken the tour of Europe, I am surprised to find how minutely my own observations harmonize with the glowing descriptions of Dr. Duffield; and had I extended my travels into Egypt and the Desert, I doubt not they would have harmonized equally with the portraitures from the graphic pen of Mr. Isham. I say not this to the disparagement of the other and more limited contributors te the pages of this work, for there is not one of them whose sketches and observa tions I have not read with a high degree of interest; and, indeed, the very variety thus furnished adds not a little to its attractions. I will only add, that it is a work admirably adapted to township and, indeed, to all miscellaneous libraries. DETROIT, April 14th, 1858. A. D. FRAZER. From E. C. SEAMAN, Esq., Author of "The Progress of Nations.” ANN ARBOR, April 8th, 1858. SIR: Having read the Magazine of Travel, during the past year, with much interest, I am pleased to learn that it is to be issued in book form. With its full alphabetical index, it will be very valuable as a book of reference. The descriptions it contains of the stupendous ruins of the Old World, aro very valuable. They give sizes, measurements, forms, relative situation and location, as well as distances from each other, of the most important ruins of ancient Thebes, and of many other places, which are more definite, accurate and complete, in an architectural and artistic point of view, and give a more vivid, definite and impressivo view of the magnitude and former magnificence of many of those ruins, than any other work which I have met with. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, E. C. SEAMAN. From Hon. Ross WILKINS. Having perused with pleasure portions of the Magazine of Travel, edited by Mr. Isham, I would commend the same to the reading public as an interesting book, which will be profitable to the general reader, and especially to the young. DETROIT, April 14, 1858. ROSS WILKINS. CRITICISMS (CONTINUED). Extract of a letter from Rev. DR. BETHUNE, of Brooklyn, "N. Y. The following, from the celebrated Dr. Bethune' seems to lead to the inferenco that he has himself travelled in foreign lands, and been an eye-witness to many things described in this work, thus furnishing another valuable corroborating teatimony. He says: "I have received and read, with much pleasure, the "Magazine of Travel," published in your city; and take great interest in following the travellers through their various journeyings on land and sea. The publication is novel in its character, and well calculated to interest its readers, especially such as have personally visited the lands and cities described by its contributors." From the "Peninsular Journal of Medicine," Edited by Drs. PITCHER, PALMER, BRODIE and CHRISTIAN. Speaking of the Magazine of Travel, it says: "This Monthly is replete with interest and crowded with valuable information. Mr. Isham's literary reputation is well known, and his ability to furnish a suitable and instructive journal, will not be doubted by any." From Hon. F. W. CURTENEUS, Adjutant General of Michigan. The Magazine of Travel is always a welcome visitor with us. Of the fifteen or sixteen periodicals I take, none is looked for with more solicitude, or read with more interest. "I had thought of offering to enlist as one of its contributors, and furnishing some random sketches of life in South America, as witnessed by myself while a sojourner there; but, as long as it is so well sustained by its present contributors, I shall be content to stand back, and, as a reador, enjoy the rich treat it furnishes me from month to month." From Dr. O. C. COMSTOCK, Marshall, Mich. "The Magazine is well worth the money it costs. It is a work which has profited me very much; and it is as entertaining as it is instructive. "I trust the health of the editor will soon be restored, and "Richard be himself again"-for we do not know how to dispense with the monthly visits of a work whose perusal has afforded us so much pleasure and profit. It is just the thing for family reading, and it will do an important service in introducing a taste for something more substantial, and of better moral tendency than the trashy literature of the day, and, at the same time, not less entertaining." |