Recently Published by Harper & Brothers, Cliff Street.
A SECOND VISIT
TO
THE UNITED STATES.
BY SIR CHARLES LYELL, F.R.S.
In Two Volumes, 12mo, Paper, $1 20; Muslin, $1 50.
This is a straightforward, manly production,
giving us as much praise as we deserve,
and yet far from contemplating every thing
with indiscriminate approbation.—Alb. Atlas.
The fame of Sir Charles Lyell as a geologist
is world wide. We have examined his
travels carefully, and have been deeply interested
in their perusal.—Union.
The author looks at Nature with learned
as well as pictorial eyes. He not only sees
her wonders and her beauties, but he knows
their sources and their consequences, so that
he informs as well as pleases the mind. His
book abounds in social sketches, and anecdotes
and incidents illustrative of society in
all its various classes.—London Spectator.
This work contains clear and interesting
notices of the people of every class or race,
and in every locality. Its generalizations are
instructive and its details entertaining. It
well merits the public regard.—Literary Gaz.
An intelligent account of the author's travels,
with observations upon his favorite science,
geology, criticisms upon society, and
remarks upon sectional differences, sectional
prosperity, and the various institutions of the
country. We commend it to the public, as
both useful and entertaining.—Troy Gazette.
This book has infinitely more real merit
and solid worth than the Travels of Dickens,
Trollope, Hall, and others of the same class.
It is the production of a man of the most conspicuous
and entire impartiality of judgment
and of temper. He writes freely, fairly, and
ably. His remarks are always calm and just.
—Savannah Republican.
A popular and attractive work, containing
a vast amount of information on various subjects.
—Onondaga Standard.
This is one of the most sensible and agreeable
books of travel we have recently encountered.
It is written in a free, candid, and
pleasant vein. Its unexaggerated, just, and
pleasing spirit will commend it to readers of
taste and discrimination.—Home Journal.
We must accord to Mr. Lyell the merit of
having looked at things with much freedom
from prejudice. His remarks upon New England
and the North will be found of much
interest to American readers.—Hartford Courant.
These volumes will not diminish the author's
reputation. He will have made us
better acquainted with the noble country of
our inheritance, and better acquainted with
one another, and different sections better acquainted
with the rest. Of the regions through
which he passed, how much has he to relate
which will be new to those who have lived
from childhood on the spot! To our citizen
travelers for relaxation in summer, how much
more attractive will the scenery be made!
His remarks on religion, on education, on
society and manners, are sufficiently flattering.
—Christian Register.
We do not recollect to have seen a work
describing with greater fairness, more apparent
sincerity, or less ostentation, our country,
institutions, habits, customs, improvements,
education, and progress in science; or a work
that we could more heartily commend to the
notice of our readers.—Farmer and Mechanic.
The author is a close observer of society,
its characteristic features, its elements of
progress and decline. His impartiality and
candor command confidence in his statements
and respect for his opinions. The work is
most agreeable reading.—National Era.
