PART I JUST PUBLISHED, TO BE CONTINUED EVERY FORTNIGHT. NEW WORK-JUST PUBLISHED. In Three handsome Octavo Volumes, bound in cloth, Price £2. 2s. EMBELLISHED WITH SEVENTY-THREE ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD, A NEW OMNIGRAPHED MAP AMERICA, HISTORICAL-STATISTIC-AND DESCRIPTIVE. BY JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM, ESQ. Lord Ashburton to Mr. Buckingham. "I have read a considerable portion of your work on America-my long residence in that country leading me to take a deep interest in whatever concerns the great republic-and I have found in it more general and varied information than in any of the numerous works on the same subject which have issued from the press. I am bound also to say, that, though I do not agree with you in all your views and opinions, they seem to bear the stamp of general impartiality and candour." George Catlin, Esq., of New York, to Mr. Buckingham. 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It is a very entire and comprehensive view of the United States, diligently collected by ervation." -"While others have been content to give in general summaries the results of their ooservations, am goes deliberately through the States, treating of all, historically and statistically-of their rise their manufactures, trade, population, topography, fertility, resources, morals, manners, education, Mr. Buckingham's volumes will be found a storehouse of knowledge." "His volumes, the result of three years' close and patient observation, are worthy of every attenainly furnish us with the clearest ideas we have yet had of the present aspects of society in the urnal." Mr. Buckingham's work, we do not hesitate to state, appears to contain by far the most extensive, and amusing history of the United States in the three characters, 'historical, statistic, ve,' that has yet been published " Telegraph." In Mr. Buckingham's America, the public possesses one of the most generally orks, descriptive of the New World, which has ever emanated from the press. The extensive range of the country traversed by our experienced traveller--the multiplicity of subjects which his pen-his agreable style of composition-the ability and tact with which he has blended hisatistical matter with bright delineations of manners and customs, the general topics dwelt on in ces-and, especially, the philanthropic purpose, in the prosecution of which Mr. Buckingham has tores of knowledge enumerated-combine to produce a book of travels containing literary ana unsurwelty, comprehensiveness, and interest, by any extant work." dependent.-"We have seen enough of the work to ascertain that it fully realizes the high anticipaur knowledge of Mr. Buckingham, as an author, as a man of most varied information, and of great d induced us to form. He writes in a spirit of candour and honesty. He neither flatters America e of England, nor England at the expense of America, but draws his contrasts between the morality, ce, the manners, and the habits of the two countries, in that spirit of fairness which alone can give comparisons." cury." Mr. Buckingham, too, did not 'steam' it through the country, and write 'flying sketches,' the decks of steam-boats, or from the windows of railway carriages, the manners, habits, and he people being picked up exclusively from the conversation of passengers by those modes of conhe took up his abode in the principal towns for months together. The result has been a work, not port any political or preconceived theory, and, in fact not dealing much in disquisitions or inferences, g a vast mass of most valuable and interesting information, presented to the reader in a clear, d judicious manner." nal.-" Mr. Buckingham gives full scope to his powerful mind in his America-he makes his work the millions by a detail of every circumstance which tends to show the character of the people he e. We may now say that America is more ably and more impartially described than has yet been we sincerely trust that all national prejudices have the axe laid to their roots, and that they will a new spirit, which will bring both nations into a more intimate connection, and extend the intermercial advantages, among the people both of America and Great Britain." Albion-"He, however, deals not in dry details, but conducts his readers with him in a plain and manner, bestowing upon them, en passant, the richness of his well-stored mind. Describing events es as they actually took place, noting everything that met his view, of habit, manner, and character, ce of cities, and aspect of countries, with the accuracy of one possessed of a trained eye and undery introducing us to all objects worthy of notice, and in the direct order in which such objects came n observation, he almost realizes to ourselves the scenes of his travel, and, as we visit the edifices stitutions which he examined, we are enabled to form a correct notion of the customs of our he United States in many particulars which other travellers have overlooked or deemed unworthy "We have always suspected the eulogiums of American writers on the eloquence of their publie e, if not wholly unmerited, at least absurdly extravagant; but we do not recollect to have met with in any work on America, till we read Mr. Buckingham's, calculated to give us something like correct information on this subject. Numerous as the works on America already are, there is not should, for various reasons, so unhesitatingly recommend, as this of Mr. Buckingham's." Herald-"These volumes contain a fund of knowledge on every subject connected with America: rogress; the education, manners, and merits of its inhabitants; its manufactures, trade, populafact, no subject of importance is left untouched. It is quite refreshing to peruse the sensible and rks of this writer, after what has recently teemed from the press on the United States of America. a valuable addition to the standard literature of the age." Evening Courant.-"Some travellers have exalted everything American as above all praise; while found nothing in the institutions and manners of that country but food for caricature. Mr. Buckever, steers a middle course, he is perfectly candid and impartial; he is no indiscriminate panegyca, nor does he satirize either her institutions or manners, but seems to distribute blame and praise airness." Chronicle." The cirumstances of Mr. Buckingham's life qualify him, above others, to present to reader a faithful and striking transcript of the social, commercial, literary, and political character atlantic neighbours. His work contains features of a pleasing kind, peculiar to itself. Whether a work of instruction, amusement, or as a mere political treatise, it is a production of great questionable utility." Herald.-"There are few men, in this age of adventure and exertion, whose intellectual labours es have been more extensive and varied, and have embraced a wider range over the globe, than ham. His public labours extend over our Colonial possessions, and large portions of the Eastern worlds. For the present we would direct public attention to the very important work on America snow published. Of his qualifications for the task he has undertaken, and of his literary acquirey suffice to say, that he possesses a thorough knowledge of trade and commerce, in all their multitments, has had great experience of the world, united to literary powers of observation and narration t order, speaks fluently many ancient and a great number of modern languages, and the list of his rks is such in extent as perhaps no man living has produced." THE CONGREGATIONAL UN FISHER, SON, & C AND JACKSON AND WALFO 1 ISHER, SON, & CO.. NEWGATE-STREET, LONDON. |