text:  But it is tolerably evident that if Madame Hahn-Hahn finding herself on the shores of the Baltic in a July that might have answered to December in the sunny climes she had so recently left allowed her account of Swedes and Sweden to be shaded a little _en noir_ by her own physical discomforts; it is evident we say that on the other hand our present author either more favoured by the season or less susceptible of its influence sins equally in the contrary extreme and throws a rosy tint over all that he portrays