Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1
p.174
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Lonsdale Magazine, 1820, vol.1 p.174
In his ardour to place every subject in the clearest light possible, he has occasionally obscured it. We should therefore prefer either giving all the arguments upon a subject at the end of the chapter or throwing them into notes: as by this means the reader would have the whole of the subject before his eye in one unbroken line. It would likewise add to the neatness of the work, if more attention was paid to the title heads of the different divisions. At present being all printed in one letter, they appear of equal importance; when many of them are only subdivisions of others. In preparing another edition he would render the work more intelligible and more agreeable to his readers by altering all such words as "horizontal traveller" - "it is situate" - "Alpine spriggery" - "polardized by the farmer" - "artistically classic," - "old pollard oaks" - "tree-ed hill." etc. We do not give these as not being English; but they are words and phrases not in general use, and therefore sound strangely in our ears. These are all the remarks which have occurred to us in an attentive perusal; and we trust the author with (sic) accept them as they are given, for the improvement of a future edition. - Surveying the work as a whole, we feel no hesitation in saying, that this is the only book in print, which deserves the title of a Guide to the Lakes. |
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