There is a freshness and vividness in his descriptions which makes the book more than commonly attractive.—Puritan Recorder.
Mr. Spalding writes with great ease and perspicuity. His powers of description are fully adequate to any occasion which requires their exertion, as is abundantly evidenced in the present work.—Petersburg Intelligencer.
A very readable journal of the Japan Expedition, by an officer which, though aiming only at re-producing the impressions of the writer’s mind, gives a good view of the strange scenes and characters which the opening of that country disclosed.—N. Y. Evan.
Mr. Spalding’s work gives the results of his observations precisely as they occurred to him at the time, his mind being singularly unbiassed by the enthusiasm of those by whom he was surrounded. He looks upon things with a cool, discriminating eye, neither over-estimating nor undervaluing the advantages of our new relations.—N. Y. Herald.
It is the first account of Perry’s Expedition, and will always be more popular than any government report.—St. Louis Leader.
“Every Inch a King.”—Harper’s Magazine.
The Private Life of an Eastern King, from the MS. of a member of the household of his late Majesty, Nussir-u-Deen, King of Oude. By Wm. Knighton, author of “Forest Life in Ceylon,” &c. 12mo., cloth, 75 cents.
The whole story reads like a lost chapter from the Arabian Nights.—Lon. Athenæum.
Gives a better insight into purely eastern manners than any work we know of.—London News of the World.