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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"More convenient in form . . . than the red books of Albemarle street,
The red books of Coblenz are handier for the pocket or the knapsack, and
are terser and more to the point in their style."
Edinburgh 1867. Spectator.
"We doubt whether any extant English work on London will give the
English reader so much useful information about his own capital as this
German Handbook". ("Bædeker's London".)
London 1862. Saturday Review.
"Bædeker's Paris is an excellent book for nine out of every ten visi-
tors to Paris. It tells all they want, and not more than they want. . . .
Although it contains much letter-press, it will really go easily into the
Pocket. The maps are very ingeniously managed. Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe
and Rouen have all their maps and short remarks. The routes to London,
the Rhine and Switzerland are all described. There are also numerous plans."
London 1865. Reader.
"Bædeker's Handbooks have a great reputation all over the continent
of Europe, and for years have been distributed in numerous editions."
London 1863. Reader.
"Herr Bædeker has long been famous all over the continent for his
travellers' handbooks."
London 1863. Bookseller.
"For all who do not care for elaborate description, doubtful criticism
and a profusion of historical reminiscences . . . there are no guide-books
like Bædeker's. They are of convenient size, contain everything that the
ordinary traveller wants to know, told accurately, sensibly, and succinctly.
Their list of hotels and restaurants is generally trustworthy, and may be
consulted with confidence by persons to whom expense is of some consequence.
The hand-book of Paris before us is excellent in every way,
and gives, besides, a sufficiently minute description of the city, the two
ordinary routes by which Americans usually enter and leave Paris."
New York 1867. The Nation.
"Bædeker is, as is well known, a singularly accurate and useful guide
. . . . his information is comprehensive, minute, and carefully compiled."
London 1867. Pall Mall Gazette.
The Doldenhorn and Weisse Frau. Ascended for the first time
by Abraham Roth and E. von Fellenberg. With 11 coloured
engravings, 4 woodcuts and a coloured map in the scale of
1:50,000. Coblenz, 1863. Royal 8vo, cloth 7 s. 6 d.; sewed 6 s.
. . . . The coloured engravings, from sketches by Ph. Gosset and
E. von Fellenberg, are really beautiful, and, with J. R. Stengel's coloured
map, aid the narrative wonderfully. The book is one to be possessed by
all Alpine climbers.
"The Reader", November 1863.
. . . . The most valuable features of this charming little book are
the excellent map of a little-known region, and the beautiful chromolithographs
from M. von Fellenberg's drawings, which will give the inexperienced
a better idea of the mysteries of the upper ice-world than any
illustrations ever before published.
"The Alpine Journal", December 1863.
. . . . The plates throughout the book are particularly well executed,
and will prove pleasing to all, who are interested in scenery of this character.
We do not remember any of like kind and size that equal them.
"The Athenæum", December 1863.
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