"Here you have Port Phillip depicted by a hand on which you may thoroughly depend. My brother, from whose letters these are extracts, is a' man well known in the literary world; and is, moreover, well known to a considerable circle as a man who is independent in mind and character, has no party feeling, and never joined himself to any political party, but at the same time would stand by the truth to the death."-Author of the Rural Life of England, in Tait's Magazine. "A writer of true poetical feeling, and considerable poetical power."— Blackwood's Magazine. "He has a fine taste for Nature in all her simplicity; a keen perception of the beauties of the natural world. He writes affectionately, and unaffectedly. We recommend his book to the million of readers who study nature in books, if not in the fields. He is healthfully English in his compositions.”—Athenæum. "Full of genuine pictures of Nature, antmate and inanimate."-Leigh Hunt. |