FROM THE MORNING HERALD.--“We welcome the second edition of this truly interesting work with great pleasure. It will prove a useful handbook to those who contemplate a similar excursion, whilst people who remain at home will scarcely find a better book from which to obtain useful and interesting information concerning the country and its inhabitants.”
FROM THE ATHENÆUM.--“Mr. Metcalfe went about with much activity both by land and sea, and a great deal of information is to be found in these volumes. His matter is good, his style free, candid, and agreeable, and his general tone manly and genial.”
FROM THE LITERARY GAZETTE.--“These volumes are extremely lively and entertaining, written in a vein of high animal spirits, and full of details which bring the country and the people vividly before us.”
FROM THE PRESS.--“We have to thank Mr. Metcalfe for a couple of very amusing volumes. He has made several trips to Norway, and has here given to the public the fruits of his experience. He is a keen angler, and at the same time an intelligent observer--gifted with excellent powers of description and a quick perception of humour. Hence his notices of Norwegian scenery and of the manners and social state of the people are of a kind to attract all classes of readers.”
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