The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-12-25

MEMORIALS OF NATURE AND ART.-Col
j. Lewis Peyton, who went to Europe in
ls5l-lS52 bearing dispatches from the U. S.
Government to England, France and Aus
tria, and who then made the tour of Europe;
and who was despatched to England again
as c.. S. Foreign agent In 1861, breaking
the Federal blockade of Charleston, S. C..
in the Confederate soop of war-the Nash
ville-Capt. Pegram Commander, and Isl
Lieut.. Fauntleroy executive officer, BROTH
err cf DR.. A. NJ. Fauntleroy of this city, will
give, in a series of weekly articles in our
pressions and experiences on the other side
of the Atlantic. These articles will be en-
titled s'MemoTials of Nature and Art" &C.,
and will embrace notices of many of the
distinguished statesmen, men OF letters,
diplomats, army and navy officers, with
whom be became personally acquainted,
such as the Emperor Napoleon III, Lord
Palmerston, Gen'l st Arnaud. Arago, Ber-
enger, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Cardinal
Antonell, Prince Napoleon, Lord Ashbur-
ton, Sir VIM. Holt, Sir Percy Fitzgerald,
Thackeray, Bouccault, sir Edward Land
seer, and others whose names we do not now
recall.
Col. Peyton, as many of our readers are
aware, is a gentleman of fine literary at.
tainments, finished scholar;a keen observ.
er of men and manners, and one Of the
most forcible and graceful of writers. AS
an author, his reputation is established, his
works having taken first rank among a
people as cultured and critical as the En-
glsh, receiving marked commentator from
the highest literary authority, as the extract
below, taken from the London 4theneuna
and other British Journals, evidence. In
these Memorials we can safely promise our
readers series of articles instructive, enter
tanning, graphic and of real profit, and we
congratulate them as we'll as ourselves upon
having elisted the services Of pen as
| graceful, fluent and able as that of Col.
| Peyton.
| The following extracts from the London
journals, periodicals of the first standing and
literary character, speak for themselves:
1.-The American Crisis is work of reat
| interest, written in a most spirited and
mastery Saskatchewan.
| .tThe American Crisis is a book of a
highly interesting character and one in
which the readers interest seldom or ever
flags. Many Of its sketches are hit off with
much skill and effect. "-Bath Herold.
/ ssWe have seen no work on the American
| Civil war, more entertaining and thoroughly
readable than that by Col Peyton. The
STYLE of which is terse and vigorous. "-The
Cosmopolitan.
..r'ufi Of spirited sketches and interesting
descriptions. '-The London Month.
"The production of a scholar and gen
| tleman, We can but rect mmend our read
/ ers to possess themselves of it, assured that
| they win findthey have secured fund OF
pleasant reading, - United Service Magazine.
.sOf Over the Alleghanies, they say, the
"reminiscences are very interesting and give
an excellent and truthful idea of the North
Americans Indians, their mode OF life aud
warfare. Tile 1Etheneuna.
"Col. Peyton's work is OF historical value
i and we heartily recommend it to all. "-1ht
London Reuiear.
.tAs q useful and reliable guide lew can
compare in interest with Col. Peyton, whose
agreeable volume we have read with mucn
i pleasure. ,-Tlse London Weekly Times.
I"A peasant amusing and charming VOL
urhe. - Norwood Meas.
These are ba, few extracts from hundreds
ofbayorable 10 ews Of Col. P's. works.