CONDER'S Italy will in future be the travelling companion of
every man bent upon a thorough investigation of that interesting land. Mr. CONDER is the best compiler of the day. And this is no small praise : such compilation as Mr. CONDER'S requires industry of a laborious nature, considerable knowledge, a methodi- cal head, judgment, taste,—are these qualities to be met with everywhere ? Look at the in inner in which compilations are usually performed, and the quest ion is answered. Mr. CONDER iS the compiler of the Modern Traveller, the best and completest geographical and descriptive work in any language. In the course of that work, the author, commencing anonymously, worked his way up to distinction; and we pride ourselves on having takers every opportunity, public and private, of pointing out the merits— modest, unpretending, but sterling merits—of the book and the bookmaker. Italy is on the plan, and, as we should conceive, a portion of the Modern Traveller detached, probably to attract the attention of persons who are solely interested in that country. It contains the pith and marrow of all preceding travellers ; and Mr. CONDER has shown, that by staying at home, one may learn a great deal more about a country than by running through it,—just as Mr. MILL has said, in his preface to the British India, there was an advantage, in writing the history of a country, never to have seen. it. Three small volumes now contain the Italian traveller's library: with this work and a book of posts or roads and a good map, the curious inquireris completely set up : he may throw EUSTACE over- board, surrender Lady MORGAN to the Austrian douaniers, turn his back on the Invalid, and cut the caustic Mr. FORSYTH.
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