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THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.

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PICTURE OF SHEFFIELD.

_Sir Richard Phillips's Personal Tour, Part III_.


Our extracts from the previous portion of this work, have forcibly
illustrated the striking originality of its style, and the interesting
character of its information.

The present Part concludes Newstead, and includes Mansfield,
Chesterfield, Dronfield, Sheffield, Rotherham, and Barnsley; and from it
we extract the following facts, which almost form a _picture of
Sheffield_.[2]

[2] The utility of such a Tour as the present is greater than may
appear at first sight. Londoners are so absorbed with the wealth
and importance of their own city, as to form but very erroneous
notions of the extent and consequence of the large towns of the
empire--as Liverpool, Manchester, &c.; find those who live in
small country towns are as far removed from opportunities of