NEW AMERICAN NOVEL.
The Insurgents, a new American and Historical Novel, 2 vols. 12mo.
“This story is founded upon the insurrection in Massachusetts, during the
year 1786, known more generally as `Shay's War,' which was similar, in some
of its features at least, to the rising of the `Whiskey Boys' in Pennsylvania.
“The Yankee author (for that he is a Yankee, no one can doubt, who observes
with what vraisemblance he uses the vernacular idiom of that people)
has given a very amusing detail of the facts connected with that struggle,
which cannot fail to prove entertaining.”
—Sat. Evening Post
“The characters are extremely well drawn—the Yankee talk and manner
well preserved—and the historical narrative faithfully followed. It is evidently
the work of a full and well disciplined mind.”
—N. Y. American.
