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2 stamp the author as an artist of no ordinary power. He has now produced an able work that will be read with pleasure wherever the English language is understood. His well known powers of description renders his account of the eventful scenes of the early colonists most lifelike and pleasingly exact.— Gentleman’s Magazine. Many of the scenes and incidents are told with great spirit, and there is a freshness and vigour about it which stirs the blood, and keeps the attention unflagging. It has a heartiness, which we like far better than the sickly refinement of the swarm of English fashionable novels which darken our land. The simplicity of early manners, and the rudeness of provincial life, are brought vividly before us; and the sketches are traced with a free and vigorous, though sometimes a careless pencil.— Galaxy. PETER PILGRIM: Orv, A Rambler’s Recollections. BY DR. BIRD, AUTHOR OF “NICK OF THE WOODS,” “CALAVAR,” gc, &c. In Two Volumes, 12mo. It is a sort of Decameron of Tales, of which the scenes are laid in various parts of our country, and it abounds in rich traditionary lore and national characters. The tale entitled " Merry the Miner” is one of the most imaginative and powerful we ever read, combining the author’s most finished style, with a power and moral sublimity for which we are at a loss to find a parallel. The “ Night on the Terrapin Rocks,” and the “ Mammoth Cave,” are written in the same powerful style. Peter Pilgrim will enhance in no small degree the already brilliant reputation of the author of the “ Gladiator” and " Calavar.”— Weekly Messenger. ALTHEA VERNON: OR Tete I IMOBIROUID Je IRIE ID) IOLA IN ID) RC Jeg JR C8008 Je", TOGETHER WITH RENRIBTTA HARRISON: OR, THE BLUE COTTON UMBRELLA. BY MISS LESLIE. AUTHOR OF “THE PENCIL SKETCHES,” &c. In One Volume, 12mo. 4 Althea Vernon,” and " The Blue Cotton Umbrella,” fill a good sized volume . with agreeable matter and pertinent advice. Miss Leslie’s productions are now the staple commodities of domestic literature; her works are to be found in every house. The volume under notice is a favourable specimen of her well known wers of composition. Miss Leslie may be termed the “ Martineau” of social ife.— Gentleman’s Magazine.
