HISTORY OF NEW YORK,
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.
By Diedrich Knickerbocker. Plates after Cruikshank.
This is a satirical production, in which the follies of the day are humorously depicted in the persons and costume of the ancient Dutch colonists who founded New York. The scene is local, the application directed to that city, to recent occurrences in the history of the United States, and of measures of the government of the Model Republic. The satire, however, is not personal, but aimed at human character and conduct, and may, therefore, be generally felt.
LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS
WHO RAISED THEMSELVES FROM POVERTY TO EMINENCE OR FORTUNE.
By R. A. Davenport.
The object of this work is not merely to inculcate a moral lesson to youth, but to encourage virtue generally by creating submission to the law of opinion. When mankind perceive meritorious exertions in every rank rewarded, and in numerous instances crowned with success, they are more strongly supported in their resistance to difficulties, and more boldly encounter and conquer them. This single volume includes the most varied memoirs; whence it will appear that industry and perseverance, accompanied by rectitude of intention, obtain their merited reward in every civilized nation of our globe.
HISTORY OF THE MUTINY AT SPITHEAD AND THE NORE.
By J. Neale, Esq., Author of “Cavendish.”
With an Inquiry into its Origin and Treatment. With a Portrait of Richard Parker.
Resistance to authorities necessarily enlists so few abettors, that, even when it originates in cruelty, injustice, and injury, its correction is demanded by the voice of the nation. To this feeling must be traced the flagrant partiality of our historians in describing the Mutiny of the Nore, and their misrepresentation of the causes of that calamity. Viewed at this distance of time, it is remembered as the foundation of that splendid and perfect discipline which has ever since pervaded and adorned the fleet, and as the cause for abolishing the despotic practice of impressment. But from these memorable movements legislators may receive a lesson, and learn how much more faithful freemen are than slaves to a state in danger, and more binding the ties of gratitude and affection than the terror of tyranny. This is the moral reduced from the Mutiny of the Nore in the present history.