Knights and their days

Part 46

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The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by himself; in which he narrates his early history as Clerk, Merchant, and Editor, and his later career as a Showman. With a Portrait on steel, and numerous Illustrations by Darley. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

A Memorial of Horatio Greenough, consisting of a Memoir, Selections from his Writings, and Tributes to his Genius, by HENRY T. TUCKERMAN, Author of “Sicily, a Pilgrimage,” “A Month in England,” &c., &c. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

Minnesota and its Resources; to which are appended Camp-Fire Sketches, or Notes of a Trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk Settlements on the Red River of the North. By J. WESLEY BOND. With a New Map of the Territory, a View of St. Paul, and one of the Falls of St. Anthony. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

The Private Life of an Eastern King. By a Member of the Household of his Late Majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

Doran’s Queens of England. The Queens of England, of the House of Hanover. By Dr. DORAN, Author of “Table Traits,” “Habits and Men,” &c. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth. Price $2 00.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

The U. S. Japan Expedition. Japan and Around the World. An Account of Three Visits to the Japanese Empire, with Sketches of Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, China, Loo Choo, &c., 1852 to 1855. By J. W. SPALDING, Captain’s Clerk of the Flagship “Mississippi.” 1 vol., 12mo, with Illustrations. Cloth. Price $1 25.

Cosas de España. (Strange Things of Spain.) Going to Madrid via Barcelona. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

A Month in England. By HENRY T. TUCKERMAN, Author of “Sicily, a Pilgrimage,” “The Optimist,” &c. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cts.

Sicily, a Pilgrimage, by Henry T. Tuckerman, Author of “A Month in England,” &c., &c. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

A Tennessean Abroad; or, Letters from Europe, Asia, and Africa. By RANDALL W. MCGAVOCK, A. M., L. L. B., Member of the Nashville Bar. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana. By Mrs. COLIN MACKENZIE. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth. Price $2 00.

The Russian Shores of the Black Sea, with a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Author of “A Journey to Nepaul.” Fourth Edition. 12mo, cloth. Two maps and eighteen cuts. Price 75 cents.

A Year with the Turks; or, Sketches of Travel in the European and Asiatic Dominions of the Sultan. By WARRINGTON W. SMYTH, A. M. With a colored Ethnological Map of the Turkish Empire. Third Edition. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829. With a View of the Present State of Affairs in the East. By Colonel CHESNEY, R. A., D. C. L., F. R. S., Author of the Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris. With an Appendix, containing the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Four Powers, and the Secret Correspondence between the Russian and English Governments. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth; Maps. Price $1 00.

White, Red, and Black. Sketches of American Society, during the Visits of their Guests. By FRANCIS and THERESA PULSZKY. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth. Price $2 00.

The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia, a Country flowing with Wild Animals, such as Panthers, Bears, Wolves, Elk, Deer, Otter, Badger, &c., &c., with innumerable Trout, by Five Adventurous Gentlemen, without any Aid of Government, and solely by their Own Resources, in the Summer of 1851. By “THE CLERKE OF OXENFORDE.” With Illustrations from Life by Strother. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

SCIENCE AND ART.

Griscom on Ventilation. The Uses and Abuses of Air; showing its Influence in Sustaining Life, and Producing Disease, with remarks on the Ventilation of Houses, and the best Methods of Securing a Pure and Wholesome Atmosphere inside of Dwellings, Churches, Workshops, &c. By JOHN H. GRISCOM, M. D. 1 vol., 12mo. Price 75 cents.

Bronchitis, and Kindred Diseases. In language adapted to common readers. By W. W. HALL, M. D. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 00.

Bodenhamer on the Diseases of the Rectum. Practical Observations on some of the Diseases of the Rectum, Anus, and Continuous Textures; giving their Nature, Seat, Causes, Symptoms, Consequences, and Prevention; especially addressed to non-medical readers. By W. BODENHAMER, M. D. Second edition, with plates, &c. In 1 vol., 8vo, cloth. Price $2 00.

Comparative Physiognomy; or, Resemblances between Men and Animals. By J. W. REDFIELD, M. D. 1 vol., 8vo, with several hundred Illustrations. Price $2 00.

Episodes of Insect Life. By ACHETA DOMESTICA. In three Series:--1. Insects of Spring. 2. Insects of Summer. 3. Insects of Autumn. Beautifully Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt, $2 00 each. The same beautifully colored after Nature, extra gilt, $4 00 each.

Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, from the most Authentic Sources. By THOMAS WRIGHT, A. M., &c. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

The Night-Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers. By CATHARINE CROWE. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 00.

Art and Industry, as represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York. Showing the Progress and State of the various Useful and Esthetic Pursuits. From the “New York Tribune.” Revised and Edited by HORACE GREELEY. 12mo, cloth, fine paper, $1 00. Paper covers, 50 cents.

Chapman’s American Drawing-Book. The American Drawing-Book, intended for Schools, Academies, and Self-Instruction. By JOHN G. CHAPMAN, N. A. Three Parts now published. Price 50 cents each. [Part IV. in Press.]

The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings. By CHARLES EDWARDS, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law. With Illustrations, 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

BELLES-LETTRES.

=Revolutionary Tales=, by WM. GILMORE SIMMS, Esq. New and Revised Editions, with Illustrations by Darley.

The Partisan; A Romance of the Revolution. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Mellichampe; A Legend of the Santee. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of Dorchester. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Scout; or, The Black Riders of the Congaree. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Woodcraft; or, The Hawks about the Dovecote. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Forayers; or, The Raid of the Dog-Days. A New Revolutionary Romance. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Eutaw. A New Revolutionary Romance. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

=Simms’s Border Romances of the South=, New and Revised Editions, with Illustrations by Darley. Uniform with SIMMS’S REVOLUTIONARY TALES.

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V. Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky Tragedy. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

VI. Confession; or, The Blind Heart. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Yemassee; A Romance of South Carolina. By WM. GILMORE SIMMS, Esq. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Southward, Ho! a Spell of Sunshine. By WM. GILMORE SIMMS, Esq. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Noctes Ambrosianæ. By Professor WILSON, J. G. LOCKHART, JAMES HOGG, and Dr. MAGINN. Edited, with Memoirs and Notes, by Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE. In 5 volumes. Price $5 00.

The Odoherty Papers; forming the first portion of the Miscellaneous Writings of the late Dr. MAGINN. With an Original Memoir, and copious Notes, by Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE. 2 vols. Price $2 00.

The Shakespeare Papers, and the Homeric Ballads; forming Vol. III. of the Miscellaneous Writings of the late Dr. MAGINN. Edited by Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE. [In Press.]

Bits of Blarney. By Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, Editor of “Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish Bar,” “Noctes Ambrosianæ,” &c. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Table Traits. By Dr. DORAN, Author of “Habits and Men,” &c. 12mo, cloth. $1 25.

Habits and Men. By Dr. DORAN, Author of “Table Traits,” “The Queens of England under the House of Hanover.” 12mo. Price $1 00.

Calavar; The Knight of the Conquest. A Romance of Mexico. By the late Dr. ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, Author of “Nick of the Woods;” with Illustrations by Darley. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Nick of the Woods, or the Jibbenainosay. A Tale of Kentucky. By the late Dr. ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, Author of “Calavar,” “The Infidel,” &c. New and Revised Edition, with Illustrations by Darley. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Pretty Plate; A New and Beautiful Juvenile. By JOHN VINCENT. Illustrated by Darley. 1 vol., 16mo, cloth, gilt. Price 50 cents; extra gilt edges, 75 cents.

Vasconselos. A Romance of the New World. By FRANK COOPER. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

A Stray Yankee in Texas. By PHILIP PAXTON. With Illustrations by Darley. Second Edition. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Wonderful Adventures of Capt. Priest. By PHILIP PAXTON. With Illustrations by Darley. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Western Characters; being Types of Border Life in the Western States. By J. L. M’CONNEL, Author of “Talbot and Vernon,” “The Glenns,” &c., &c. With Six Illustrations by Darley. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

The Master-Builder; or, Life at a Trade. By DAY KELLOGG LEE. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 00.

Merrimack; or, Life at the Loom. By DAY KELLOGG LEE. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 00.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Complete in three volumes. With a Portrait; a Memoir by James Russell Lowell; and an Introductory Essay by N. P. Willis. Edited by RUFUS W. GRISWOLD. 12mo. Price $3 50.

The Cavaliers of England; or, The Times of the Revolutions of 1642 and 1688. By HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

Knights of England, France, and Scotland. By HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

The Chevaliers of France, from the Crusaders to the Mareschals of Louis XIV. By HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. Author of “The Cavaliers of England,” “Cromwell,” “The Brothers,” &c., &c. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

Marmaduke Wyvil; An Historical Romance of 1651. By HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, Author of “The Cavaliers of England,” &c., &c. Fourteenth Edition. Revised and Corrected. Price $1 25.

The Forest. By J. V. HUNTINGTON, Author of “Lady Alice,” “Alban,” &c. 1 vol., 12mo. Second Edition. Price $1 25.

Alban; or, The History of a Young Puritan. By J. V. HUNTINGTON. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth. Price $2 00.

Isa: a Pilgrimage. By CAROLINE CHESEBRO’. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

The Children of Light. By CAROLINE CHESEBRO’, Author of “Isa, a Pilgrimage,” “Dream-Land by Daylight,” &c., &c. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Dream-Land by Daylight: A Panorama of Romance. By CAROLINE CHESEBRO’. Illustrated by Darley. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 25.

Clovernook; or, Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West. By ALICE CAREY. Illustrated by Darley. First and Second Series. Fourth Edition. 2 vols., 12mo. Price $2 00.

Hagar; A Story of To-Day. By ALICE CAREY, Author of “Clovernook,” “Lyra, and Other Poems,” &c. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1 00.

Cap-Sheaf, a Fresh Bundle. By LEWIS MYRTLE. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

The Youth of Jefferson; or, A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, Va., 1764. Cloth. Price 75 cents.

Tales and Traditions of Hungary. By THERESA PULSZKY. With a Portrait of the Author. 1 vol. Price $1 25.

The Lion Skin and the Lover Hunt. By CHARLES DE BERNARD. 12mo. Price $1 00.

Easy Warren and his Cotemporaries: Sketched for Home Circles. By WILLIAM TURNER COGGESHALL. Price $1 00.

You Have heard of Them: being Sketches of Statesmen and Politicians, Painters, Composers, Instrumentalists and Vocalists, Authors and Authoresses. By Q. With Portraits on Steel of Horace Vernet and Julia Grisi. 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Satire and Satirists. By JAMES HANNAY. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

Full Proof of the Ministry. By the Rev. JOHN N. NORTON. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

=Dickens’s Little Folks=, in a Series of 18mo Volumes, with Illustrations, Neatly Bound in Cloth. Price 38 cents.

1. Little Nell. 4. Florence Dombey. 2. Oliver and the Jew Fagin. 5. Smike. 3. Little Paul. 6. The Child Wife.

This is a series of volumes which has been undertaken with a view to supply the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration. The writings of Charles Dickens have been selected as the basis of the scheme, on account of the well-known excellence of his portrayal of children, and the interests connected with children--qualities which have given his volumes their strongest hold on the hearts of parents. With this view the career of LITTLE NELL and her GRANDFATHER, OLIVER, LITTLE PAUL, FLORENCE DOMBEY, SMIKE, and the CHILD-WIFE, have been detached from the large mass of matter with which they were originally connected, and presented, _in the author’s own language_, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volume will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Works of the Honorable William H. Seward, with a Memoir, Portrait and other Engravings on steel. 3 vols., 8vo. Price per volume, cloth, $2 50; half calf, $3 75; full calf, extra, $4 50.

The Study of Words. By R. C. TRENCH, B. D., Professor of Divinity in King’s College, London. 1 vol., 12mo. Price 75 cents.

On the Lessons in Proverbs. By R. C. TRENCH, B. D., Author of the “Study of Words.” 12mo, cloth. Price 50 cents.

The Synonyms of the New Testament. By R. C. TRENCH, B. D., Author of the “Study of Words,” “Lessons in Proverbs,” &c., &c. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 12mo, cloth. Price 75 cents.

English, Past and Present. By Rev. RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, B. D. 12mo. Price 75 cents.

Macaulay’s Speeches. Speeches by the Right Hon. T. B. MACAULAY, M. P., Author of “The History of England,” “Lays of Ancient Rome,” &c., &c. 2 vols., 12mo. Price $2 00.

Meagher’s Speeches. Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland, with Introductory Notes. By THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Portrait. Price $1 00.

Lectures and Miscellanies. By HENRY JAMES. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 25.

Characters in the Gospel, illustrating Phases of Character at the Present Day. By Rev. E. H. CHAPIN. 1 vol., 12mo. Price 50 cents.

Ballou’s Review of Beecher. The Divine Character Vindicated. A Review of the “Conflict of Ages.” By Rev. MOSES BALLOU. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

Maurice’s Theological Essays. Theological Essays. By FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE, M. A., Chaplain of Lincoln’s Inn. From the Second London Edition, with a New Preface, and other Additions. 1 vol., 12mo, cloth. Price $1 00.

The Pictorial Bible; being the Old and New Testaments according to the Authorized Version; Illustrated with more than One Thousand Engravings, representing the Historical Events, after celebrated Pictures; the Landscape Scenes, from Original Drawings, or from Authentic Engravings; and the Subjects of Natural History, Costume, and Antiquities, from the best sources. 1 vol., 4to, embossed binding. Price $6 00.

Life under an Italian Despotism!

LORENZO BENONI,

OR

PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN

_One Vol., 12mo, Cloth--Price $1.00._

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“The author of ‘Lorenzo Benoni’ is GIOVANNI RUFFINI, a native of Genoa, who effected his escape from his native country after the attempt at revolution in 1833. His book is, in substance, an authentic account of real persons and incidents, though the writer has chosen to adopt fictitious and fantastic designations for himself and his associates. Since 1833, Ruffini has resided chiefly (if not wholly) in England and France, where his qualities, we understand, have secured him respect and regard. In 1848, he was selected by Charles Albert to fill the responsible situation of embassador to Paris, in which city he had long been domesticated as a refugee. He ere long, however, relinquished that office, and again withdrew into private life. He appears to have employed the time of his exile in this country to such advantage as to have acquired a most uncommon mastery over the English language. The present volume (we are informed on good authority) is exclusively his own--and, if so, on the score of style alone it is a remarkable curiosity. But its matter also is curious.”--_London Quarterly Review for July._

“A tale of sorrow that has lain long in a rich mind, like a ruin in a fertile country, and is not the less gravely impressive for the grace and beauty of its coverings ... at the same time the most determined novel-reader could desire no work more fascinating over which to forget the flight of time.... No sketch of foreign oppression has ever, we believe, been submitted to the English public by a foreigner, equal or nearly equal to this volume in literary merit. It is not unworthy to be ranked among contemporary works whose season is the century in which their authors live.”--_London Examiner._

“The book should be as extensively read as ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ inasmuch as it develops the existence of a state of slavery and degradation, worse even than that which Mrs. Beecher Stowe has elucidated with so much pathos and feeling.”--_Bell’s Weekly Messenger._

“Few works of the season will be read with greater pleasure than this; there is a great charm in the quiet, natural way in which the story is told.”--_London Atlas._

“The author’s great forte is character-painting. This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness.”--_London Spectator._

“Under the modest guise of the biography of an imaginary ‘Lorenzo Benoni,’ we have here, in fact, the memoir of a man whose name could not be pronounced in certain parts of northern Italy without calling up tragic yet noble historical recollections ... its merits, simply as a work of literary art, are of a very high order. The style is really beautiful--easy, sprightly, graceful, and full of the happiest and most ingenious turns of phrase and fancy.”--_North British Review._

“This has been not unjustly compared to ‘_Gil Blas_,’ to which it is scarcely inferior in spirited delineations of human character, and in the variety of events which it relates. But as a description of actual occurrences illustrating the domestic and political condition of Italy, at a period fraught with interest to all classes of readers, it far transcends in importance any work of mere fiction.”--_Dublin Evening Mail._

Memoirs of a Distinguished Financier.

FIFTY YEARS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES;

OR, REMINISCENCES OF A MERCHANT’S LIFE.

By VINCENT NOLTE. 12mo. Price $1.25. [Eighth Edition]

The following, being a few of the more prominent names introduced in the work, will show the nature and extent of personal and anecdotal interest exhibited in its pages:--

Aaron Burr; General Jackson; John Jacob Astor; Stephen Girard; La Fayette; Audubon; the Barings; Robert Fulton; David Parish; Samuel Swartwout; Lord Aberdeen; Peter K. Wagner; Napoleon; Paul Delaroche; Sir Francis Chantry; Queen Victoria; Horace Vernet; Major General Scott; Mr. Saul; Lafitte; John Quincy Adams; Edward Livingston; John R. Grymes; Auguste Davezac; General Moreau; Gouverneur Morris; J. J. Ouvrard; Messrs. Hope & Co.; General Claiborne; Marshal Soult; Chateaubriand; Le Roy de Chaumont; Duke of Wellington; William M. Price; P. C. Labouchere; Ingres; Charles VI., of Spain; Marshal Blucher; Nicholas Biddle; Manuel Godoy; Villele; Lord Eldon; Emperor Alexander, etc. etc.

“He seldom looks at the bright side of a character, and dearly loves--he confesses it--a bit of scandal. But he paints well, describes well, seizes characteristics which make clear to the reader the nature of the man whom they illustrate.”

The memoirs of a man of a singularly adventurous and speculative turn, who entered upon the occupations of manhood early, and retained its energies late; has been an eye-witness of not a few of the important events that occurred in Europe and America between the years 1796 and 1850, and himself a sharer in more than one of them; who has been associated, or an agent in some of the largest commercial and financial operations that British and Dutch capital and enterprise ever ventured upon, and has been brought into contact and acquaintance--not unfrequently into intimacy--with a number of the remarkable men of his time. Seldom, either in print or in the flesh, have we fallen in with so restless, versatile and excursive a genius as Vincent Nolte, Esq., of Europe and America--no more limited address will sufficiently express his cosmopolitan domicile.--_Blackwood’s Magazine._

As a reflection of real life, a book stamped with a strong personal character, and filled with unique details of a large experience of private and public interest, we unhesitatingly call attention to it as one of the most note-worthy productions of the day.--_New York Churchman._

Our old merchants and politicians will find it very amusing, and it will excite vivid reminiscences of men and things forty years ago. We might criticise the hap-hazard and dare-devil spirit of the author, but the raciness of his anecdotes is the result of these very defects.--_Boston Transcript._

His autobiography presents a spicy variety of incident and adventure, and a great deal of really useful and interesting information, all the more acceptable for the profusion of anecdote and piquant scandal with which it is interspersed.--_N. Y. Jour. of Commerce._

Not the least interesting portion of the work, to us here, is the narration of Nolte’s intercourse with our great men, and his piquant and occasionally ill-natured notice of their faults and foibles.--_N. Y. Herald._

It is a vivid chronicle of varied and remarkable experiences, and will serve to rectify the errors which too often pass among men as veritable history.--_Evening Post._

The anecdotes, declamations, sentiments, descriptions, and whole tone of the book, are vivacious and genuine, and, making allowance for obvious prejudices, graphic and reliable. To the old it will be wonderfully suggestive, to the young curiously informing, and to both rich in entertainment.--_Boston Atlas._

As an amusing narrative, it would be difficult to find its superior; but the book has peculiar interest from the freedom with which the author shows up our American notorieties of the past forty years.--_Courier._

THE UNITED STATES JAPAN EXPEDITION.

An Account of Three Visits to the Japanese Empire, with Sketches of Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, China, and Loo-Choo. By Col. J. W. SPALDING, of the United States Steam Frigate Mississippi, Flag-ship of the Expedition, with eight Illustrations in Tint. 12mo., cloth, $1 25.

The book embraces a novel field in “Japan,” and a wide one in the world, but the author has made a long voyage seem a short one, in the interest which his graphic and instructive pen has thrown about every league of his progress. The style is flowing and animated--Japan and the Japanese are dashed off in life-like pictures. We advise all who have the slightest curiosity to become acquainted with that secluded and remarkable people, and to obtain a connected and spirited account of the great American Expedition to Japan, to purchase the admirable work of Col. Spalding.--_Rich. Dispatch._

Col. Spalding is a man whose character in the community in which he has heretofore resided places him above suspicion, so that his narrative may be implicitly trusted. He is withal a racy writer, and a person gifted with very uncommon powers of observation.--_Baltimore Patriot._