The subject is handled in a masterly manner.—Olive Branch.
This is a lively and entertaining history of some of the most romantic and important events in the early times of European explorations of America.—Commonwealth.
Mr. Banvard has much of that talent, so rare and valuable, which enables its possessor to interest and instruct the young. We are glad to see the romantic stories of our colonial times disinterred and reproduced from the ponderous volumes in which they have been buried, and brought forward in a form adapted to the taste and capacity of the youthful reader.—N. Y. Recorder.
It contains strange adventures filled with romance. The volume has also some fourteen good illustrations.—Express.
The extraordinary hardships and thrilling incidents connected with the history of the early explorers, together with the charm which Mr. Banvard has thrown around it by his popular style of writing, renders it exceedingly interesting.—Ch. Sec.
A very pleasant, instructive, and interesting book is this. The historical incidents, sketches of character, national customs, and amusing anecdotes told in it, give it a charm which even the grave scholar will acknowledge and approve.—Patriot.
The style is very agreeable, and his selection of the most remarkable incidents very happy and judicious, and well calculated to improve the mind.—Sci. American.
Much that is fresh for the reader, imparted with tact and spirit.—Home Journal.
How “novel” was the “New World” when examined by the first explorers, and Mr. Banvard has gone over the ground in so charming a manner that he seems to have brought the scenes down to our own experience. Every page is absorbingly interesting.—East Boston Gazette.
The book only needs to be known to command readers.—Watchman of Prairies.