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BAKER & SCRIBNER HAVE JUST PUBLISHED
A NEW EDITION OF
The Battle Summer—Being Transcripts from Personal
Observation in Paris, during the year 1848—with Illustrations
by Darley. 1 vol. 12mo. By Ik. Marvel.
“It is a series of pictures—sketches of scenes which passed under the author's eye.
It is most ably done and shows the hand of one gifted with genius and destined to make
his mark on the literature of his country.”
—N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
“The book is filled with a series of pictures, and sketches more graphic it would be
difficult to find.”
—N. Y. Recorder.
“Like a talented and enthusiastic artist, he placed himself in the best positions, and
caught the lineaments of each scene to be transferred to his canvas. * * * In truth,
he has furnished a gallery of portraits which are very life like.”
—Presbyterian.
“An elaborate history would fail to convey so vivid and truthful a conception of the
rise, progress and manner of the `second reign of terror' as is to be obtained from this
work.”
—Portland Transcript.
“It is by far the most able and most impressive account of the scenes in Paris, and
reveals a power of description that will give the author a name.”
—N. Y. Evangelist.
“The writer wields a bold and vigorous pen which fascinates the reader while it
leaves an impress as from the point of a diamond.”
—N. B. Mercury.
“They are certainly distinguished by vigour, clearness, and a remarkably picturesque
mode of bringing striking scenes and incidents before the reader's eye.”
—Albion.
“Page after page of finished pictures, daguerreotyped by the bright genius of the
author delight the reader and fasten him to his seat until the last leaf is turned.”
—Albany Argus.
“The origin, progress and result of the revolution are exhibited with great vivacity
in those short, quaintly-named sketches, which manifest alike the power and brilliancy
of the writer, and carry the reader along from chapter to chapter, presenting with a
few well-conceived strokes, the peculiar characteristics of that movement which made
France a Republic.”
—Buffalo Express.
“A swift and vivid sketch by a firm hand and a practised eye, of the swell and surge
of Revolution backward and forward through the streets of Paris, in 1848. It is not a
history; it is not a biography; but a glancing bird's eye view, involving biography
and assuming history, giving the essential principles of both, and in its rapid and brilliant
etchings, furnishing descriptions decisive, energetic, and as it seems in the distance,
comprehensive and just. His writing has play and pliancy in it; his philosophy
is dense and practical; his understanding clear; his descriptions picturesque.”
—Independent.
“The author adopts to a considerable extent the dramatic boldness of Carlyle; taking
the reader by the hand and placing him in the midst of the events which are passing
on the theatre of his descriptions.
—Boston Courier.
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