Middletown transcript., 1868-01-25
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1. i NOInOOoANO MILES OF uOtSEBACh.
Santa Fe and back. A Summer Tour through
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico,
in the Year 1866. By Colonel Jas. F. Meline.
vol. crown 8vo, price 50.
che is good traveller and combining the
disciplined mind of a student with the training
of an army officer, Is well qualified to give an
opinion upon Whist he observes His mode of
travelling has furnished him with excellent op-
portunities for careful observation and with great
variety Of adventure in the prairie. .'-Standard,
New Bedford, Mass.
at is lively, descriptive history of the coun-
try passed through, imparting much valuable
information, and makes a capital companion to
the Across the Continet, and other books of in
ter-continental travel of the past few years.
Commonwealth, Boston.
2. FOUR YEARS AMONG THE SPANISH
AMERICANS.
By Hon. F. Hsssaurek, late U s. Minister Resi-
dent to the Republic of Ecuador. vol. crown
svo, price y.
The subject is full of interest, and we COM
mend the volume to our readers as one Of the best
Of the year for information. .'-Press, Hartford,
Connecticut.
"The result is a work which for its wealth of
information, for its broad spirit of philosophy is
seldom equalled. In style it is graphic and ner-
vous. The description of the ascent of Chimba-
razo is fine specimen of vivacious narrative.
while the portraiture of Spanish-American char
acter and life, as displayed in the cities and the
country, is minute, and evidently faithful
Express, Albany.
3. ITALIAN JOURNEYS.
By William D. Howells, Author of Venetian
Life. vol. crown Syo., price 81.
"Since the days of Montagne and Lord Her
bert Of Cherbury [ not to mention James Howell
again no traveller in Italy has written mote en-
tertaining accounts OF his journey than our coun-
tryman, Mr.. Howells, whose Venetian Life we
noticed some months ago. Commonwealth, Boz
ton.
"There is in all Mr.. Howells writes a freshness
and sincerity, quiet and perfect remuneration of
pretence, a. subtle aud strong humor, liveliness
OF description, combined with grave and self
possessed calmncss which make the expression of
opinion, the narration of fact, the utterance OF
emotion, or the bubbling out Of an irreprcssible
sense of the ludicrous alike charming. There Is
no writer of travels in our day so simple, sincere,
enjoyable, and profitable. .''-brookiyn tnion.
4. VENETIAN LIFE.
By William d. Howells. vol. crown svo.
pirce 81.
"Seldom writer makes so broad and fine a
| mark with his first pcn-stroke as Mr.. Howes,
our late accomplished Consul ut Venice, made
with his Venetian Life. The critics found So
much 70 praise in this book that for once they
| forgot their avocation and paused TO admire and
enjoy instead of hastenng TO point out the defects
and faults. .'-LiterM ChriSikin.
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Or, Creeds, Races, Society, and Scenery in
Turkey and Greece, and the Isles of Greece. BY
=. q. W. Benjamin. l. vol. l6mo, price 81. IS.
"If anybody wishes a small volume of facle,
graceful, mobile prose- we commend him to these
rather miscellaneous, yet entertaining pages.
| Ne1 YOry Independent.
"The Style Of this book Is that of an easy mar
ratiyc, the sympathies are those Of right
minded American, and the predictions are shared
in common with intelligent observers every
were. ."-Brookiyn Union.
"The authors account of Greece is not fatter-
ing, but no doubt 1t is true. ."-Battimore Episeo-
| pdl Methodist.
8. THE DIARY OF A MILLINER.
| By Belle Otis. vol. l6mo, price 81. 25.
| The diary is apparently truthiully written
it indicates some very queer facts for the rcormeI
and economist, some phases oftamiliar experience
| of which popular novelist might well avail him
| self, and is memoir of kind of life about which
many people know little. - Iranseript, Boston
| "A smart milliner could tell many fine story
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I. THE OPEN POLAR SEA.
A Narrative of Voyage Of Discovery towart
the North Pole, in the schooner United States
By DR.. Isaac /. Hayes, Commander Of the Ex
pedition. Embellished with six full-page illus
trations, drawn by barley, White, and others
from DIR. Hayes Sketches, three full-page charts
twenty-eight vignettes, and fine portrait of tn
author, engraved on steel. vol. Svo., price
cloth, $3.75; half calf, $6.
" lie has culled the most significant facts, til
most picturesque scenes the most dramatic an,
pathetic incidents from this diurnal record an
woven them into consecutive, pleasing, and i'm
pressive history. .'-Boston Transcript.
8. OLD ENGLAND:
Its Scenery, Art, and People. BY James N
Hoppin, Professor in Yale College. VOL l6mc
price, So.
at pleasantly revives our choicest mcmorie
of England, and suggests motives and means 70
a more enjoyable and instructive sojourn tina
our rapid countrymen usually devote to the Ian
of their fathers. .'-7ranscript, Boston.
.. HoMEsPUN; OR, FIVE AND INVENT
YEARS AGO.
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. By Phoebe Cary. vol. l6mo. price, 81. 81
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rather than passiveness. "-Republican, Sprin.
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