BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
The Journal of Latrobe.
The Journal of Latrobe.
The Journal of Latrobe.
Being the Notes and Sketches of an Architect, Naturalist, and Traveller in the United States from 1796 to 1820. ByBenjamin Henry Latrobe, Architect of the Capitol at Washington. Copiously illustrated with reproductions from the original drawings by the author. 8vo. Ornamental cloth, $3.50 net.
These are the memoirs of a personal friend of the first President of the United States. He was a man of refinement and great intellectual attainments, a soldier, civil engineer, philosopher, artist, humorist, poet, and naturalist. The book is bright with story and anecdote, criticism and comment.
“Benjamin Latrobe was a man of the world and a clever commentator on what he saw going on around him. One of the best pen pictures of Washington is Latrobe’s account of a visit to the Father of his Country at Mt. Vernon in 1796.”—Review of Reviews.
“Mr. Latrobe was a keen observer, and his notes of travel in the South are valuable in an attempt to picture the life of a century ago.”—Chicago Tribune.
“Benjamin Latrobe visited Washington at Mt. Vernon and recorded what he saw very fully. Then, late in life, he went to New Orleans by sea and wrote full notes of his voyage and his impressions. Both diaries are full of interest. Between them are placed in this volume papers relating to the building of the Capitol. Prefixed to the volume is a biographical introduction written by his son thirty years ago. The illustrations are curious and interesting.”—New York Sun.
“With what has been said of the volume it should be evident that it is curious, interesting, and instructive to an unusual degree. To speak of ‘The Journal of Latrobe’ without mention of its illustrations would be an unpardonable oversight.”—San Francisco Chronicle.