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THE BORDER ROVER.
BY
EMERSON BENNETT.
AUTHOR OF “CLARA MORELAND,” “VIOLA,” “THE FORGED WILL,” “PIONEER'S
DAUGHTER,” “BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS,” “KATE CLARENDON,”
“HEIRESS OF BELLEFONTE,” “WALDE-WARREN,” ETC.
Complete in two large duodecimo volumes, neatly bound, in paper cover.
Price One Dollar.
Read the following opinion of the work from one of our most
celebrated critics.
“Perhaps it is enough to say of the `Border Rover,' that it is one
of Emerson Bennett's best productions, and will be sure to delight
all readers who were pleased with the `Prairie Flower' and `Clara
Moreland,' to which it may be considered a companion—the scenes
and incidents being something similar, and yet the story totally unlike
either of the others. The scene of the `Border Rover' is in the
Territory of Kansas, beginning at Independence, Missouri, and extending
all over the plains or prairies to the Rocky Mountains. It
is full of thrilling adventure and hair-breadth escapes, love, romance
and humor, and the characters are trappers, traders, hunters,
travelers, guides, Indians, &c., &c. Furthermore, the scenes are
geographically correct, the incidents of actual occurrence, and those
who wish to see Kansas as it was a few years since, will find in this
most exciting story some very accurate and valuable information.
“We feel no hesitation in placing Mr. Bennett as foremost among
our American writers. Of course we do not include metaphysics,
nor history, nor philosophy, (although it must be confessed that his
writings prove his perfect familiarity with each,) but we mean that
he is the best writer, taken all in all, of any in this country, in the
particular field of literature which he has chosen. There are doubtless
many writers who excel him in some minor points, but taken as
a whole, his works are unrivaled on this side of the Atlantic.
“In all that he writes, there seems to be an irresistible charm,
holding the reader spell-bound from the beginning to the end. That
this gift is natural, and not acquired, we assume from reading some
which the `Prairie Flower' was sought after and devoured upon
its first appearance in the West. Every body read it—every body
talked about it, and for a time, not to have seen the `Prairie
Flower,' was to acknowledge yourself guilty of unpardonable ignorance.
Since then many other of his works have appeared, descriptive
of western and southern life, with the characters drawn so
faithfully, that one can hardly go on board a steamboat, or enter a
hotel, without recognizing some of the living shapes of his ideal heroes
and heroines.
“Of Mr. Bennett, personally, we know nothing; having never seen
him, or even heard a person speak of him who has been honored with
his acquaintance. But his reputation is the common property of
all lovers of the noble maxims which he inculcates, the morality
which he teaches, and the virtue which he adorns, in a style at once
the purest and most fascinating. Under his glowing pen, vice is
stripped of its gaudy coloring and held up for abhorrence in all
its haggard deformity; while virtue, humble and lowly, clothed in
rags, is won from its timid retreat, and brought forth that the good
in heart may do it homage.
“Let those who have never yet been familiar with his writings
read, and they can then judge for themselves whether we have overestimated
the abilities of Emerson Bennett as a writer.”
EMERSON BENNETT'S OTHER WORKS.
PIONEER'S DAUGHTER; and, THE UNKNOWN COUNTESS.
Complete in one large octavo volume. Price 50 cents.
CLARA MORELAND. Price 50 cents; or in cloth, gilt, $1.00.
VIOLA. Price 50 cents; or in cloth, gilt, 75 cents.
THE FORGED WILL. Price 50 cents; or in cloth, gilt, $1.00.
ELLEN NORBURY. 50 cents; or in one volume, cloth, $1.00.
BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS. Price 50 cents.
KATE CLARENDON. Price 50 cents; or in cloth, gilt, 75 cents.
HEIRESS OF BELLEFONTE AND WALDE-WARREN, 50 cents.
☞ Copies of any of Emerson Bennett's works will be sent to any
one to any part of the United States, free of postage, on remitting the
price of the works they may wish to the publisher, in a letter.
Published and for sale at the Cheap Book and Publishing Establishment
of
T. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
To whom all orders should come addressed.
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