NOVELTIES OF THE NEW WORLD;
NOVELTIES OF THE NEW WORLD;
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES of the First Explorers of North America. ByRev. Joseph Banvard, author of “Plymouth and the Pilgrims,” etc. Being the second volume ofBanvard’s Series of American Histories. With numerous Illustrations. 16mo, cloth, 60 cts.
IfMr. Banvardcompletes the series as he has begun, he will supply an important desideratum for the young—a series of books which will serve as valuable introductions and enticements to more extended historical reading. The plan of the author is to seize on the prominent and interesting points in the history of our country, and present them in a continuous and sprightly narrative.—Am. Traveller.
We have seen the boys bend over these pages, unwilling to leave them, either for play or sleep; and when finished, inquiring anxiously when the next would come.—Watchman and Reflector.
It has all the interest of a romance.—Portland Transcript.
Written in a felicitous style, which is neither too childish for adults, nor yet too difficult of comprehension for children, they will delight and instruct.—Journal.
Some of the most interesting scenes and events in the New World are here brought together and invested with a charm that is irresistible by old or young.—Ch. Intel.
The subject is handled in a masterly manner.—Olive Branch.
This is a lively and entertaining history of some of the most romantic and important events in the early times of European explorations of America.—Commonwealth.
Mr. Banvardhas much of that talent, so rare and valuable, which enables its possessor to interest and instruct the young. We are glad to see the romantic stories of our colonial times disinterred and reproduced from the ponderous volumes in which they have been buried, and brought forward in a form adapted to the taste and capacity of the youthful reader.—N. Y. Recorder.
It contains strange adventures filled with romance. The volume has also some fourteen good illustrations.—Express.
The extraordinary hardships and thrilling incidents connected with the history of the early explorers, together with the charm which Mr. Banvard has thrown around it by his popular style of writing, renders it exceedingly interesting.—Ch. Sec.
A very pleasant, instructive, and interesting book is this. The historical incidents, sketches of character, national customs, and amusing anecdotes told in it, give it a charm which even the grave scholar will acknowledge and approve.—Patriot.
The style is very agreeable, and his selection of the most remarkable incidents very happy and judicious, and well calculated to improve the mind.—Sci. American.
Much that is fresh for the reader, imparted with tact and spirit.—Home Journal.
How “novel” was the “New World” when examined by the first explorers, and Mr. Banvard has gone over the ground in so charming a manner that he seems to have brought the scenes down to our own experience.Every page is absorbingly interesting.—East Boston Gazette.
The book only needs to be known to command readers.—Watchman of Prairies.
The popularity of the author, and the admirable productions of his pen, already so widely circulated, are a sufficient pledge that any thing from him will be found to possess sterling merit and worth.—Transcript.
Mr. Banvardhas hit upon a happy idea in this series of publications, and will no doubt find a full sanction in the public patronage.—Zion’s Herald.
The author possesses the art of making simple truth far more interesting than the wonders of fable.—Evergreen.