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Page 95 - We conceive this work to be by far the most valuable and important Judge Haliburton has ever written. While teeming with interest, moral and historical, to the general reader, it equally constitutes a philosophical study for the politician and statesman. It will be found to...
Page 98 - STANSBÜRT (H.) Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : -with an authentic account of the MORMON SETTLEMENT, and a reconnaissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains, 8vo.
Page 52 - History of Pompey the Little; or the life and adventures of a Lap Dog...
Page 64 - TALES OF THE WEST. By the Author of " Letters from the East,
Page 24 - Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland, 5 vols.
Page 93 - Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good, 1юп., 1846; new ed., ¡Hurt., 1877, p.
Page 89 - Hatchie, the Guardian Slave ; or, the Heiress of Bellevue : a Tale of the Mississippi and the South-West, by Warren T.
Page 31 - The History of My Father, or How it happened that I was Born ; a Romance, In twelve Chapters. Translated from the German. Lond. 1799, 12mo. 3s. 6d. The Escape ; a Narrative. Translated from the German by B. Thompson. Lond. 1799, 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Page 85 - Independent with the comment that "the pictures of the intense happiness of the slaves are so very charming one wonders why the inventors do not make haste to sell their children to the slavetraders.
Page 91 - The Kathayan Slave, and other Papers connected with Missionary Life. By Emily Judson. Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, MDCCCLIII, in-8, ff.