Our Artist in Cuba / Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5.

FIFTY DRAWINGS ON WOOD.
LEAVES FROM THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A TRAVELER, DURING THE WINTER OF 1864-5,
BY GEO. W. CARLETON.
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NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. London: S. Low, Son & Co. MDCLXV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by GEO. W. CARLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
WITH man the Artillery band in the Plaza des Armas—assisting with domino and false nose at the masquerades in the Tacon Theatre—lounging with ices or delicious chocolate at the Café Dominica—dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, after the regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic, and onions—snuffing up the perfumed air, and strolling through the golden orange-groves of Cafetals—joining in the battle, murder, and sudden death of Marinao cock-fights—vagabondizing along the shady side of Calle Obispo—and so forth, through all the dulce far nientes of a stranger's drifting life, among the lights and shadows of the Antilles' Queen.
The only merit the pictures possess, perhaps, is their faithfulness to nature. Though chiefly caricatures, they represent such incidents and scenes as every one, with both eyes open, sees, who visits Cuba; and being sketched upon the spot, with all the crispy freshness of a first impression, they possess a sort of photographic value, that, in spite of their grotesqueness, may prove more lasting than the entertainment which their humor offers.
NEW YORK, April, 1865.
First day out.—The wind freshens up a trifle as we get outside Sandy Hook; but our artist says he is'nt sea-sick, for he never felt better in his life.
A Booby —as seen from the ship's deck.