The popularity of the author, and the admirable productions of his pen, already so widely circulated, are a sufficient pledge that any thing from him will be found to possess sterling merit and worth.—Transcript.
Mr. Banvard has hit upon a happy idea in this series of publications, and will no doubt find a full sanction in the public patronage.—Zion’s Herald.
The author possesses the art of making simple truth far more interesting than the wonders of fable.—Evergreen.
ROMANCE OF AMERICAN HISTORY;
OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT of North Carolina and Virginia, embracing a Narrative of the tragic Incidents connected with the Spanish Settlement at St. Augustine, the French Colonies at Roanoke, and the English Plantation at Jamestown; the Captivity of Captain John Smith, and the interesting Adventures of the youthful Pocahontas. By Rev. Joseph Banvard. Being the third volume of Banvard’s Series of American Histories. With numerous Illustrations. 16mo, cloth, 60 cts.
This is the third volume of Mr. Banvard’s attractive series of books founded on the early history of our country; and it will make a most valuable addition to all family and school libraries.—Arthur’s Gazette.
It has all the interest of romance and the additional interest of history.—Pur. Rec.
It is a volume just such as we like to see in the hands of intelligent youth, and just such as intelligent youth like to have given them. It shows that there were times that tried men’s souls “long before the day of the Revolution.” It unfolds the dangers that were passed, the trials endured, the labors undergone in order to wrest from savage men and a savage wilderness this fair and wide domain which we now enjoy.—Willis’s Home Journal.
As interesting as a novel, and a thousand times more profitable.—Lit. Messenger.
Every library should contain this National Series of Histories.—N. E. Farmer.