ERRATA TO VOL. I. The Reader is particularly requested to correct the following errors, which corrupt either the sense or grammar : Page 5, line 5, for 'de' read la. 60, 64, part of. 3 of the motto, for 'Ou', read Ov'. 2, for 'in which was formerly,' read formerly 79, line 7, omit 'proffered.' last, for 'creca,' read cresca. 10, for 'realizes,' read realize. 4 from bottom, after arrived,' insert at Lausanne. 9, for 'purgation,' read infliction. 9, for quickly, read quietly. 8, for incersept,' read intersect. 5 of the note, for cliffs,' read clefts. 2, for rustic,' read rustics. 353, CHAPTER I. ENGLAND. Farewell to the land where in childhood I wandered! My native land-good night! MOORE. LORD BYRON. BACON. Travelling in youth is part of education. IN a room strewed over with the usual elegant English litter of music, books, prints, cabinets, old china, new nick-nacks, musical instruments, and innumerable pieces of furniture -so that a foreigner, accustomed only to the immoveable tables and chairs of continental saloons, might, on first entering, be puzzled to guess whether he was in a drawing room, a music room, a china shop, or an upholsterer's show room;-in this truly English apartment, were seated two young ladies—one of whom seemed intent upon her drawing,-the other, after a long silence, threw down her book-one of the innumerable new "Travels in Italy," and started up, exclaiming, Breathes there a girl, with soul so dead, To bear her to a distant strand ? If such there be, go mark him well Her I mean- "but why mark her well?' I'm sure she can't be worth marking or remarking at all. What comes next, Georgiana ?" The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. "But how could such a wretch ever have any renown to forfeit ?" "Why, Caroline," exclaimed her sister, laughing, "how can you, of all people, attempt to parody those beautiful lines that I have heard |