Greece for a direction to Stymphalus, Nemea, Mycenae, &c. &c.  This is neither more nor less than classical affectation; and it renders Mr. Gell’s book of much more confined use than it would otherwise have been:—­but we have some other and more important remarks to make on his general directions to Grecian tourists; and we beg leave to assure our readers that they are derived from travellers who have lately visited Greece.  In the first place, Mr. Gell is absolutely incautious enough to recommend an interference on the part of English travellers with the Minister at the Porte, in behalf of the Greeks.  “The folly of such neglect (page 16. preface,) in many instances, where the emancipation of a district might often be obtained by the present of a snuff-box or a watch, at Constantinople, and without the smallest danger of exciting the jealousy of such a court as that of Turkey, will be acknowledged when we are no longer able to rectify the error.”  We have every reason to believe, on the contrary, that the folly of half a dozen travellers, taking this advice, might bring us into a war.  “Never interfere with any thing of the kind,” is a much sounder and more political suggestion to all English travellers in Greece.

Mr. Gell apologises for the introduction of “his panoramic designs,” as he calls them, on the score of the great difficulty of giving any tolerable idea of the face of a country in writing, and the ease with which a very accurate knowledge of it may be acquired by maps and panoramic designs.  We are informed that this is not the case with many of these designs.  The small scale of the single map we have already censured; and we have hinted that some of the drawings are not remarkable for correct resemblance of their originals.  The two nearer views of the Gate of the Lions at Mycenae are indeed good likenesses of their subject, and the first of them is unusually well executed; but the general view of Mycenae is not more than tolerable in any respect; and the prospect of Larissa, &c. is barely equal to the former.  The view from this last place is also indifferent; and we are positively assured that there are no windows at Nauplia which look like a box of dominos,—­the idea suggested by Mr. Gell’s plate.  We must not, however, be too severe on these picturesque bagatelles, which, probably, were very hasty sketches; and the circumstances of weather, &c. may have occasioned some difference in the appearance of the same objects to different spectators.  We shall therefore return to Mr. Gell’s preface; endeavouring to set him right in his directions to travellers, where we think that he is erroneous, and adding what appears to have been omitted.  In his first sentence, he makes an assertion which is by no means correct.  He says, “We are at present as ignorant of Greece, as of the interior of Africa.”  Surely not quite so ignorant; or several of our Grecian Mungo Parks have travelled in vain, and some very sumptuous works have been published to no purpose!  As we proceed, we find the author observing that “Athens is now the most polished city of Greece,” when we believe it to be the most barbarous, even to a proverb—­