Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-10-05
MARK TwAIN'S WAR MAP.
Marks First Attempt in the Art lime
Official Concentrations, &c.

The Buffalo Express of Saturday has
wonderful war map, drawn and engraved
10y Mark Twain, with explanations by the
artist. Appended are some recommends
tons which the work has received,
TO THE READER.
The idea of this map is not original with
me, but is borrowed from the Tribune and
the other great metropolitan Journals
/ claim no other merit for this produce
uou IF / may so call it, than that it is ac-
curate. The main blemish OF the city pa
per maps, of which it is All imitation, is
that in them more attention seems paid to
artistic picturesqueness than geographical
reliability.
Inasmuch as this is the first time / ever
tried to draft and engrave map, or at
tempt anything in the line of art at all, the
concentrations the work has received and
the admiration it has excited among the
people, have been very grateful TO my feel
ings. And il is touching to reflect that by
far the most enthusiastic Of these praises
have come from people who know nothing
at all about art.
By an mimportant oversight have en-
graved the map so that 1t reads wrong end
first, except to left-handed people. | for
got that i'm order to make il right in print
it should be drawn and engraved upside
down. However, let the student who de-
sires to contemplate the mapstand on his
That will bring it right.
The reader will comprehend at n glance
that that piece of river with the High
Bridge - over it got left out TO one side by
reason of a slip of the graving-tool, which
rendered 1t necessary TO change the entire
course of the river Rhine, or else spoil the
map. After having spent two days in dig
ging and gouging eft the map, | would
have changed the course of the Atlantic
Ocean before | would have lost so much
work.
never had SC much trouble with any
thing in my life us / did with this map.
had had heaps of little Qualifications scat
tered all around Paris, at first, but every
now and then my instrument would slip
and bring away whole miles of batteries,
and leave the vicinity as clean as if the
Prussians had been there.
The reader will find it well to frame this
map for future reference so that it may aid
in extending popular intelligence, and dis
pelling the widespread ignorance Of the
day. MARK TWAIN.
OFFICIAL COMBINATIONS.
ut is the only map of the kind ! ever
saw. L. :. GRANT,
1T phases the situation in an entirely
new light BISMARCK"
II cannot look upon itwithout shedding
tears. BRIGHAM HoUNG.'
1T is very nice, large print.
NAPOLEON
"My wife was for years afflicted with
ireckles, and though everything was done
for her relief that could be done, all was in
vain. But, sir, since her first glance at
your map they have entirely left her She
has nothing but commissions now.
~. SMITH
''If had had this map could have got
out of Metz without any trouble.
"BAZAINE.n
al have seen a great many maps in my
time, but none that this one reminds me
of. TROCHU."
at is but fair to say that in some re-
spects it is a truly remarkable map.
wv. L. SHERMAN
II said to my son, Frederick William,
IF you could only make map like that,
would be perfectly willing TO see you die
CIVILIAN III.N