17 JUNE 1837, Page 18

Picturesque and Historical Recollections, by MATTHEW O'Costoa, Esq. Mr. O'Corroa

is a genuine Milesian gentleman, who passed the "summer vacation of 1835" in a tour through Belgium and Switzerland, and who has contrived to give a sort of interest to the narrative of his journey over such a well-worn ground, by the associations which a wide, if not a very critical course of historical reading, enables him to call up, and by the characteristic manner—half stately, half ludicrous—with which he describes the occasional companions of his tour.