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RAMBLES BY LAND AND WATER.
Rambles by Land and Water; or, Notes of Travel in Cuba
and Mexico, including a Canoe Voyage up the River Panuco,
and Researches among the Ruins of Tamaulipas, etc.
By B. M. Norman. Richly illustrated with Tinted Lithographs.
1 vol., 12mo. $1 00.
“It is replete with interest, more especially that part which treats of the
ancient ruins and curious antiquities of America. Mr. Norman is at home
in this department of our national literature; and the views he presents in
regard to them, though differing from those of some other able writers on
the subject, are well stated, and ably sustained. The engravings are fine,
and the whole book will be found exceedingly readable and instructive.
It contains some incidents of deep and thrilling interest; and some of the
pictures—that of the American Sphinx, for example—are more curious than
any that have yet been drawn from that faithful field. The only regret his
readers will feel in laying down his book, will be, that there is not more of
it.”
—N. O. Commercial Times.
“We have previously noticed this work, but a thorough perusal justifies
a further review. The readers of the Courier will recollect we were favored
with a drawing of `The American Sphinx,' and description thereof,
in advance of the publication of these Rambles. A better recollection,
however, will be, the adventures and sketches we published from the eloquent
pen of the estimable author, Mr. Norman, in his Travels in Yucatan,
&c. That was one of the most interesting books of American travel ever
published—and we think this volume of Rambles in Cuba and Mexico will
prove equally acceptable to the reading public. It includes a Canoe Voyage
up the river Panuco, and Researches among the Ruins of Tamaulipas,
&c.
Who knows not what to light it brings.'
“Norman is one of the most modest men in our literature. To our judgment,
his style puts us more in mind of the simple and unaffected, but eloquent
and rich delineations and descriptions of Washington Irving, than any
other American writer. He has produced but few books, but they are gems
of travel, and make us desire most anxiously more from his buoyant and
good-humored pen. We like his Rambles by Land and Water, and all his
Notes of Travel, very much; and this last series of pictures from his pen
and pencil are to us equally interesting as his Rambles in Yucatan, Central
America, &c.”
—Phil. Saturday Courier.
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