Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 29
Hen Dr. Johnson was consulted by Boswell as to the propriety of publishing an account of his travels on the continent, he told Boswell that most travellers In Europe who had published their travels had been laughed at, anpd that he would be sorry to see Boswell' s name added to the number. The modern books of travel, as a class, are of a far higher order than those to which Dr. Johnson alluded; nevertheless from the very excess to which they have mirltiplied, the careless haste with which they are compiled, the egotism which they too frequently display, and the recklessness with which they upset each other 111 their descriptions of almost every object which Is worthy of description, there is still a large proportion of them of which the Doctor's stricture is literally true.
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