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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 military 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 germs 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, Unca.

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 bis 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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Walter Colton's Works.

WRITINGS OF REV. WALTER COLTON,

LATE CHAPLAIN IN THE U. S. NAVY,

T.

SHIP AND SHORE

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

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.

IV.

THREE YEARS 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.

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.

"The original edition of this work, published in London, was issued in quai to form, upon 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 Croinwell, 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.