The Niagara River
By Archer Butler Hulbert
Professor of American History, Marietta College; author of “The Ohio River,” “Historic Highways of America,” etc.
350 pages, with 70 Illustrations and Maps. $3.50 net
Professor Hulbert tells all that is best worth recording of the history of the river which gives the book its title, and of its commercial present and its great commercial future. An immense amount of carefully ordered information is here brought together into a most entertaining and informing book. No mention of this volume can be quite adequate that fails to take into account the extraordinary chapter which is given to chronicling the mad achievements of that company of dare-devil bipeds of both sexes who for decades have been sweeping over the Falls in barrels and other receptacles, or who have gone dancing their dizzy way on ropes or wires stretched from shore to shore above the boiling, leaping water beneath.
The Hudson River
FROM OCEAN TO SOURCE
Historical—Legendary—Picturesque
By Edgar Mayhew Bacon
Author of “Chronicles of Tarrytown,” “Narragansett Bay,” etc.
600 Pages, with 100 Illustrations, including a Sectional Map of the Hudson River. $3.50 net
“The value of this handsome quarto does not depend solely on the attractiveness with which Mr. Bacon has invested the whole subject, it is a kind of footnote to the more conventional histories, because it throws light upon the life and habits of the earliest settlers. It is a study of Dutch civilization in the New World, severe enough in intentions to be accurate, but easy enough in temper to make a great deal of humor, and to comment upon those characteristic customs and habits which, while they escape the attention of the formal historian, are full of significance.”—Outlook.
The Connecticut River
AND THE
Valley of the Connecticut
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEA
Historical and Descriptive
By Edwin Munroe Bacon
Author of “Walks And Rides in the Country Round About Boston,” etc.
500 Pages, with 100 Illustrations and a Map. $3.50 net
From ocean to source every mile of the Connecticut is crowded with reminders of the early explorers, of the Indian wars, of the struggle of the Colonies, and of the quaint, peaceful village existence of the early days of the Republic. Beginning with the Dutch discovery, Mr. Bacon traces the interesting movements and events which are associated with this chief river of New England.