Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 8, 1845, vol. 1, no. 6, p. ??

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ROME AS SEEN BY A NEW YORKER IN 1843-4. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam. 1545.

It would be idle to look for any thing new in a book professing to give the observations of a looker-on in Rome, even though he is a New Yorker, and we are not disappointed therefore upon inspecting the work before us; but if we find nothing new in its pages, we find nothing that is objectionable, saving a few remarks on classic Art, wherein the author appears to make some very common mistakes about ideality and actuality. In other respects the book is a very agreeable one, and perhaps fully equal to its pretensions. In external appearance it is one of the neatest specimeus of book-making that we have encountered since we began to look into books, with the special design to discern their defects and merits. The author's name is not given, but it is understood to be from the pen of Mr. W. M. Gillespie, whose letters in the Tribune, a year or two since, were very generally admired.