By COL. RICHARD J. HINTON,
A Contemporary of John Brown.
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12mo, Cloth; 752 pp.; 22 Portraits. Price,
$1.50. Post-free.
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In an Appendix are given the principal and more important documents prepared by John Brown, or relating directly to the enterprises against American slavery in which he was actively engaged; also a copious Index to the volume.
EXTRACTS FROM A COUPLE OF LETTERS.
Anacostia, D. C., Cedar Hill, Feb. 11, 1895.
My Dear Colonel Hinton:
Your History of the raid upon Harper's Ferry, by John Brown and his men, leaves nothing in that line to be desired.... You were in the center of the circle, and hence have had an inside view of the whole transaction. You have done for John Brown and his men, and for the truth of history, a magnificent service.
Frederick Douglass.
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Feb. 14, 1895.
My Dear Colonel Hinton:
Your work on 'John Brown and His Men' is most strongly and vividly done. In fact, wherever I open the book, I find it alive with the undying interest of the greatest hour of our history. Perhaps mankind must yet make another struggle; but so far Brown remains the hero of the supreme endeavor for freedom, and this is what you make your readers feel, without weakening any fact concerning him.
William Dean Howells.
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