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A. S. BARNES & COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.

De Tocqueville's Great Work on America.

THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: ITS POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS REVIEWED AND EXAMINED.

BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE,

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

"This sterling work on the genius of the Political Institutions of the United States has long been regarded as a classical production. The London Times, among nu merous other high critical authorities, pronounces it the most profoundly philosophica and able work ever written on the subject of which it treats. Similar distinguished praise is awarded to it as an elucidation of the theory of the Democratic principle, and the mode of its practical operation in America. This erudite work, by M. de Tocque ville, has attracted great attention throughout Europe, as well as this country, wher, it is appealed to as the standard authority on the subject."

"M. De Tocqueville shows himself to be an original thinker, an acute observer, and an eloquent writer. We regard his work as by far the most philosophical, ingenious and instructive which has been produced in Europe on the subject of America. Ther is no eulogy in it, no detraction; but throughout a manly love of truth. The observa tions of the author uniformly discover a high degree of acuteness and discrimination This valuable work cannot be read either in Europe or America without working new and profitable trains of thought."-North American Review.

"M. De Tocqueville's able volumes have conferred upon him the highest rank as a political writer; his practical observations have been tested by the most competent judges the Americans and the English; and his speculative inquiries have been applauded and cited by the first statesmen of the age, whilst they have taken their place amongst the most valuable results of modern political science. But the language of panegyric is not required to draw attention to this book, or to enhance its value; we only trust that it may be as generally and profitably studied as it has been wisely and conscientiously written."-British and Foreign Quarterly Review.

"De Tocqueville's great work on the United States has received universal commendation. . . . After the French Revolution of 1830, De Tocqueville came to the determination to visit the United States, study our institutions of government, and report the results of his investigations. He had a distinct conception of the democratic principle. It was his aim to discover the manner of its embodiment, and the practical illustration given to it by our institutions. He examined the structure of government, in all its parts, as it here exists; in its legislative, executive, and judicial forms; and in all its grades of operation, from that of the federal government of the Union, down to those little communities, the townships; and including, of course, the State govern ments, and the organizations of counties, cities, and towns. He investigated the character of each of these distinct organizations, and the nature and extent of the powers confided to each of them. A profound admiration was awakened for the author, at the extent of his research, his philosophical depth and fidelity to truth, his cool candor, and his patriotic devotion to the democratic theory of government. No writer, before or since, has made so profound an analysis of our institutions as De Tocqueville. The whole machinery of government is reviewed by him, and a critical examination is made of its structure, its operations, its excellences, and its defects. No library should be without De Tocqueville; no class should leave a college or a high school until they have taken their first great lesson in democracy, (using the word in no party sense,) from the profound teaching of De Tocqueville.”— Worceste Palladium.

A. 9. BARNES & COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.

Mansfield's Life of General Scott.

MANSFIELD'S LIFE OF GENERAL SCOTT.

THE LIFE OF GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT,

BY EDWARD D. MANSFIELD.

This work gives a full and faithful narrative of the important events with which the name and services of General Scott have been connected. It contains numerous and ample references to all the sources and documents from which the facts of the history are drawn. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings. 12mo. 350 pages.

From the New York Tribune.

We have looked through it sufficiently to say with confidence that it is well lone-a valuable addition to the best of American biographies. Mr. Mansfield does his work thoroughly, yet is careful not to overdo it, so that his Life is some. thing better than the fulsome panegyrics of which this class of works is too gen rally composed General Scott has been connected with some of the most 'irring events in our national history, and the simple recital of his daring deeds warms the blood uke wine. We commend this well printed volume to general perusal.

From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

This volume may, both from its design and its execution, be classed among what the French appropriately call "memoirs, to serve the cause of history," blending, as it necessarily does, with all the attraction of biographical incidents, much of the leading events of the time. It is also a contribution to the fund of true national glory, that which is made up of the self-sacrificing, meritorious, and perilous services, in whatever career, of the devoted sons of the nation.

From the U. S. Gazette, (Philadelphia.)

A beautiful octavo volume, by a gentleman of Cincinnati, contains the above welcome history. Among the many biographies of the eminent officers of the army, we have found that that of General Scott did not occupy its proper place: but in the "authentic and unimpeachable history" of his eventful life now presented, that want is satisfied.

From the Cleveland (Ohio) Daily Herald.

We are always rejoiced to see a new book about America, and our country. men, by an American-especially when that book relates to our history as a nation, or unrolls those stirring events in which our pro:ninent men, both dead and living, have been actors. As such we hail with peculiar delight and pride the work now before us; it has been written by an American hand, and dictated by an American heart-a heart deeply imbued with a love of his native land, its institutions, and distinguished men.

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A. S. BARNES & COMPANY S PUBLICATIONS.

History of the Mexican War.

THE MEXICAN WAR:

A History of its Origin, with a detailed Account of the Victories which terminated in the surrender of the Capital, with the Official Despatches of the Generals. By EDWARD D. MANSFIELD, Esq Illustrated with numerous Engravings.

From the Philadelphia North American

Mr. Mansfield is a writer of superior merit. His style is clear, nervous, and impressive, and, while he does not encumber his narrative with useless ornament, his illustrations are singularly apt and striking. A graduate of West Point, he is of course familiar with nulitary operations; a close and well-read student, he has omitted no sources of information necessary to the purposes of his work; and a shrewd and investigating observer, he sees in events not alone their outward aspects, but the gerins which they contain of future development. Thus qualified, it need hardly be said that his history of the war with Mexico deserves the amplest commendation

From the New York Tribune.

A clear, comprehensive, and manly history of the war, is needed; and we are glad to find this desideratum supplied by Mr. Mansfield's work.

From the New York Courier and Enquirer.

This is really a history, and not an adventurer's pamphlet destined to live for the hour and then be forgotten. It is a volume of some 360 pages, carefully written, from authorities weighed and collated by an experienced writer, educated at West Point, and therefore imbued with a just spirit and sound views, illustrated by plans of the battles, and authenticated by the chief official despatches.

The whole campaign on the Rio Grande, and that, unequalled in brilliancy in any annals, from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, are unrolled before the eyes of the reader, and he follows through the spirited pages of the narrative, the daring bands so inferior-in every thing but indomitable will and unwavering self-reliance, and military skill and arms-to the hosts that opposed them, but opposed in vain.

We commend this book cordially to our readers.

From the Baptist Register, Unica.

The military studies of the talented editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, admirably qualified him to give a truthful history of the stirring events connected with the unhappy war now raging with a sister republic; and though he declares in his preface that he felt no pleasure in tracing the causes, or in contemplating the progress and final consequences of the conflict, yet his graphic pages give proof of his ability and disposition to do justice to the important portion of our nation's nistory he has recorded. The very respectable house publishing the book, have done great credit to the author and his work, as well as to themselves, in the handsome style in which they have sent it forth.

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A. S. BARNES & COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.

Walter Colton's Works.

WRITINGS OF REV. WALTER COLTON,

LATE CHAPLAIN IN THE U. S. NAVY,

I.

SHIP AND SHORE

IN MADEIRA, LISBON, AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. Illustrated with engravings. 1 vol. 12mo.

II.

LAND AND LEE

IN THE BOSPHORUS AND ÆGEAN,

OR VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND ATHENS.
With engravings. 1 vol. 12mo.

III.

DECK AND PORT,

OR INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS TO CALIFORNIA.

WITH SKETCHES OF

Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco.
Illustrated with engravings. 1 vol. 12mo.

THREE YEARS

IV.
IN

CALIFORNIA.

With portraits and engravings. 1 vol. 12mo.

"This work is an authentic history of California, from the time it came under the flag of the United States down to the present explorations, new settlements, and gold-diggings. While the reader is instructed on every page, he will laugh a hundred if not a thousand times, before he gets through this captivating volume, and though he sits alone in his chair."-Washington Republic.

V.

THE SEA AND THE SAILOR,

NOTES ON FRANCE AND ITALY,

AND

Other Sketches from the Writings of Rev. Walter Colton; WITH A MEMOIR,

BY REV. HENRY T. CHEEVER.

Illustrated with engravings. 1 vol. 12mo.

A. S. BARNES & COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS.

Lady Willoughby's Diary.

LADY WILLOUGHBY:

OR,

PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A WIFE AND MOTHER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

"This interesting and excellent book purports to be a diary of a lady of royal birth two hundred years ago. From its being written in a style so simple, with so much of pure devotional and domestic feeling, and displaying so naturally the unaffected, womanly thoughts of a daughter, wife, and mother-its modern authorship has been more than suspected. Be this as it may, it has been deemed by many intelligent readers to have emanated from Lady Willoughby; or, at all events, to have been the production of an excellent mind, and one which had undergone the discipline of real experience. The original book was long hoarded up as a literary curiosity; but upon examination, this ancient quarto, with ribbed paper and antique type,' was found to possess too much of character, feeling, and general popular interest, to be hut up in the cabinets of the virtuosos. It soon ran through the first edition, and the resent beautiful American reprint is from the second London issue.”—Fredonian.

"A most remarkable work, which we read, some time ago, in the original English shape, with great delight. Its character is peculiar. Lady Willoughby is a fictitious character, personating an English lady of the seventeenth century, who, while the civil wars were raging, lived quietly apart from the scene of strife, bringing up her children, and manifesting her conjugal as well as maternal affection in the Diary;' which, had it emanated from the pen of a real Lady Willoughby of the time, could not have been a more beautiful, a more affecting, or a more instructive record."New York Tribune.

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"The original edition of this work, published in London, was issued in quarto form, apon ribbed paper and antique type, and at once attracted very general attention as a rare literary curiosity. In the present edition, reprinted from the second English edition, the style of execution has been modernized, retaining only the capitals, italics and the old spelling. It is a work of high interest, in whatever light it is viewed; and as a picture of domestic life during the stormy period when Cromwell and Fairfax and other heroes of that era filled so large a space before the public, it possesses a charm which will entertain every reader. The style is quaint though simple and attractive, and the book is a perfect gem in its way."-Troy Budget.

"This Diary purports to have been written in the stirring times of Charles the First and Oliver Cromwell, but the allusions to public events are merely incidental to the portraiture of Lady Willoughby's domestic life. Her picture of the little pains and trials which are mixed up with the joys that surround the fireside is perfect, and no one can fail to derive benefit from its examination. In the very first chapter we are charmed with her simplicity, her piety, and true womanly feeling, and learn to reverence the fictitious diarist as a model for the wife and mother of the nineteenth contury."-Newark Daily Advertiser.

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