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schooIcraft's 4th Volume Indian Information.
66s pages Alto, With n plates
The fret copies OF this volume have been recry.d :,
the Indian Bureau, and II will be delivered to Conges,
sufficient number reaches the Office 10 III,
mean time we have been permitted to examine copy
The style s in every respect corresponding TO that Of
the previous volumes The paper. in it's firm, white
velvet texture the new type the double loaded line,
and ample margin. and the highly finished aud artistic
steel pates render it, together with the previous volumes
decidedly The attractive work of the American press
Yet all this informed, is produced Through III.
liberty Of making special contract. and the close per,
sonal superintendent of the au,hoD for twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars.
We have with care and minuteness examined The
literary contents OF the volume. and should do injustice
TO i, not TO express decided opinion of its value
and that comprehensive spirit Of research which every.
where in lie pages manifested The subject approached
with grasp denoting ready capacity to handle it,
The Indian history is not left in the mpecse vague
and confused form which presents in any other per.
Torrance known 10 US Not the least pleasing part Of
it is the systematic and analytical plan which present,
ed It is discussed under the eighteen distinct heads
hisiorymanners and customs statistics and population;
antiquities; geography Of the Indian country tribal
organizations; intellectual capacity and character top
ical history; the physical type Of the race; their Ian.
guages; the state OF ancient Indian art; their noons
demonoogy magic, and wchcraf, their medical knowl
edges their nomenclature, biography, religion. pres.n,
sale and future prospects. and general ethnology Th.
in thus from
crete character which il could not but have assumed
these topics were immeihodcaly handled while The
illustrations, drawn by the apt pencil OF Captain East
man, United States army, constantly relieve the eye and
the whole work presents itself under the form OF
thesaurus, encyclopedia of Indian knowledge Il
is clearly manifest, as the work progresses, hi,
il takes wider, deeper and comprehensive view,
of the subject, and that if the Indian die out
they may. they destined TO live after times in these
graphic portraitures and vivid illustrations
The Indian tribes are themselves paradox. They
are unable TO explain the anomalous historical position
they occupy branch OF the human famy-a posi-.
ton, indeed, which has puzzled the historians and
philosophers OF Europe for the better part Of fos hur
dred years. Books inadequate to show where they
came from. We cannot 60 to the Vatican. the British
Museum, or the Bbliothque Royae Paris, to solve our
doubts One traveller after another has visited Amer
ard put the shelves OF these huge repositories
letters the impressions and theories which hasy wits
have enabled them TO make. For the part. he,.
books transcripts OF each others observations and
would not probable that any person who has moi
passed life among lbem and become intimate with their
manners CUSTOMS opinions, and character in every light
could render u and reliable account Of them Such
is Mr. Schoocras position and be JUSTLY in our view
regarded the reliable authority know on the subd
OF Indian history From review OF ihese papers, il i |
evident. also, that he has exercised mature judgment ia
drawing out The observations and opinions OF Others who
have lived for greater lesser periods in the Indian
country.
The narrative OF Coronados expedition into the region
now called New Mexico. &c. in I34a, 10 put in a bird
and striking light, The narrative. taken from Casen,d,
has never before appeared English dress The "a
per on American Antiquities contains a digestsd, . al
sfac,ory view OF these hitherto dsonled facts and ID,
theory appears rational Than any we have yet seen
and the remarks OF The celebrated General Geoxe Rott
Clarke lhose Of the Mississippi valley. taken from
his old manuscripts, dvest the subject OF much OF 10
mystery. The remarks the present condition and
prospects OF the tribes very timely, embrace MANI
well-consdeed facts. IN the ssisics there are SON,
curious and suggestive features respecting the subject
Afncan slavery among the Creeks No one, il ap h
pears 10 us, could properly understand the subpei
OF The Indian knowledge Of medicine, without DE-
rusins the paper Of Dr. T. Pitcher on the topic; OF \
The paper OF Mr. Ewbank on the ancient sal. Of :
Indian ART. The journals Of Mathew Clafk,on, and
OF Conrad Weiser. in the Indian country. in 1877 and
1865, now published from the manwc up, and the re
marks Of DR. Franklin the Indians in 1884, are eurou
al. III
the sketch OF the ancient and extinct Ees the bioeraph
OF Logan; the paper on Indian nomenclature and The
manaer OF forming compound words; and The still mon
elaborate and learned menoir on ansaions into the To-
dian tongue. and the vocsbuaries. appear TO us acp,
efsrts 'ha, mus, have required years OF iaboriou, study
and research.
But we have neither time. nor space. 10 give even
epitome OF the numerous. varied and valuable sieI.
which are contained in this volume, and which in cor
nexion with the SERIES render this standard wo
Of reference for all time.
The volume IL appropriate dedicated, by agaphs
Indian term, 10 President PIxRcr in lev remafks,
which the obligations TO them, implied by our type
high civilization, are referred to.
DISCOVERY or corrrE--About the year 1885, a der
wish, named Hadp Onef, was driven ou Of III. CONNIE.
NIFTY OF Mecca Hunger induced him roast ih. KsAhs