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I have read “Party Leaders” with great satisfaction and delight, and return you a thou
sand thanks for the pleasure and instruction I have derived from the perusal.

From Honorable Edward Everett.

What little I have as yet been able to read of it, has impressed me very favorably in reference
to the ability and impartiality with which it is drawn up. I am prepared to read
it with interest and advantage, in consequence of the pleasure I derived from “The Flush
Times in Alabama.”

From Honorable J. P. Kennedy.

I was greatly delighted with the fine, discriminating, acute insight with which the characters
presented in the work are drawn, and with the eloquent style of the sketches. I
but repeat the common opinion of the best judges, which I hear every where expressed,
when I commend these qualities of the book.

“The Flush Times of Alabama” had whetted my desire to see this second production
of Mr. Baldwin's pen, and I can hardly express to you the agreeable surprise I enjoyed in
finding a work of such surpassing merit in a tone and manner so entirely different from the
first—demonstrating that double gift in the author which enables him to excel in two such
opposite departments of literature.

From Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, U. S. Senator from Virginia.

I have read “Party Leaders” with great pleasure. It is written with ability, and with
freshness, and grace of style, * * * The chapters on Randolph are capital.

From Hon. James M. Mason, U. S. Senator from Virginia.

I have heard “Party Leaders” highly commended by those competent to judge, but
confess I was not prepared for the intellectual and literary feast its rich pages have yielded.

As a literary work, I shall be much disappointed if it does not place its author at once
in the first rank of American literature, and even in old England. I shall look for its place
next to, if not by the side of, the kindred works of McIntosh and Macaulay.

From a Distinguished Statesman.

It is a noble production, full of profound thought, discriminating judgment, just criticism,
and elevated sentiments, all expressed in the most captivating and eloquent style. It
is a book just according to my fancy, and, I think, one of the most captivating in our
language.

The most Authentic and Entertaining Life of Napoleon.

Memoirs of Napoleon,
HIS COURT AND FAMILY.

BY THE DUCHESS D'ABRANTES, (Madame Junot.)

Two Volumes, 8vo. 1134 pages. Price $4.

List of Steel Engrabings contained in this Illustrated Edition.

NAPOLEON.

JOSEPHINE.

MARIA LOUISA,

DUKE OF REICHSTADT,

MADAME LAETITIA BONAPARTE,

CHARLES BONAPARTE,

LUCIEN BONAPARTE,

MARSHAL JUNOT,

CHARLES BONAPARTE,

PAULINE BONAPARTE,

ELIZA BONAPARTE,

JEROME BONAPARTE,

LOUIS BONAPARTE,

CARDINAL FESCH,

LOUISA, QUEEN OF PRUSSIA,

JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

Probably no writer has had the same opportunities
for becoming acquainted with

NAPOLEON THE GREAT

as the Duchess D'Abrantes. Her mother
rocked him in his cradle, and when he
quitted Brienne and came to Paris, she guided
and protected his younger days. Scarcely
a day passed without his visiting her house
during the period which preceded his departure
for Italy as

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Abundant occasion was therefore had for
watching the development of the great genius
who afterwards became the master of the
greater part of Europe.

MARSHAL JUNOT,

who became allied to the author of this work
by marriage, was the intimate friend of Napoleon,
and figured in most of the

BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTS

which rendered him the greatest military
captain of the age. No interruption took
place in the intimacy which she enjoyed, so
that in all these scenes, embracing a period
of nearly

THIRTY YEARS,

the Duchess became familiar with all the
secret springs of

NAPOLEON'S ACTIONS,

either through her husband or by her own
personal knowledge and observation at the
Court of Napoleon.

JOSEPHINE,

whose life and character so peculiarly attract
the attention of all readers, occupies a great
part of the first volume. The character and
the deeds of

THE EMPERORS AND KINGS,
THE GREAT MEN OF THE DAY,
THE MARSHALS OF THE EMPIRE,
THE DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF
THE COURT,

are described with minuteness, which personal
observation only admits of. The work
is written in that

FAMILIAR GOSSIPING STYLE,

and so interspersed with anecdotes that the
reader never wearies. She has put every
thing in her book—great events and small.

BATTLES AND BALLS,
COURT INTRIGUES AND BOUDOIR
GOSSIP,
TREATIES AND FLIRTATIONS,

making two of the most charming volumes
of memoirs, which will interest the reader
in spite of himself.

Opinions of the Press.

“These anecdotes of Napoleon are the best yet given to the world, because the most
intimate and familiar.”

—London Literary Gazette.

“We consider the performance now before us as more authentic and amusing than any
other of its kind.”

—London Quarterly Review.

“Every thing relating to Napoleon is eagerly sought for and read in this country as well
as in Europe, and this work, with its extraordinary attractions, will not fail to command
a wide circulation. Madame Junot possessed qualifications for writing a semi-domestic
history of the great Corsican which no other person, male or female, could command.”

—
Life Illustrated.

A Work abounding in Exciting Seenes and Remarkable Incidents.

Capt. Canot;
OR,
TWENTY YEARS OF AN AFRICAN SLAVER:
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAREER AND ADVENTURES ON THE COAST, IN
THE INTERIOR, ON SHIPBOARD, AND IN THE WEST INDIES.

Written out and Edited from the Captain's Journals, Memoranda, and Conversations.

BY BRANTZ MAYER.

One Volume, 12mo. With eight Illustrations. Price $1 25.

Criticisms of the Press.

“The author is a literary gentleman of Baltimore, no Abolitionist, and we believe the
work to be a truthful account of the life of a man who saw much more than falls to the lot
of most men.”

—Commonwealth.

“A remarkable volume is this; because of its undoubted truth: it having been derived
by Mayer from personal conversations with Canot, and from journals which the slaver furnished
of his own life.”

—Worcester Palladium.

“Capt. Canot, the hero of the narrative, is, to our own knowledge, a veritable personage,
and resides in Baltimore. There is no doubt that the main incidents connected with
his extraordinary career are in every respect true.”

—Arthur's Home Gazette.

“Under one aspect, as the biography of a remarkable man who passed through a singularly
strange and eventful experience, it is as interesting as any sea story that we have
ever read.”

—Boston Evening Traveller.

“Capt. Canot has certainly passed through a life of difficulty, danger, and wild, daring
adventure, which has much the air of romance, and still he, or rather his editor, tells the
tale with so much straightforwardness, that we cannot doubt its truthfulness.”

—New York
Sunday Despatch.

“The work could not have been better done if the principal actor had combined
the descriptive talent of De Foe with the astuteness of Fouche and the dexterity of Gil
Blas, which traits are ascribed to the worthy whose acquaintance we shall soon make by
his admiring editor.”

—N. Y. Tribune.

“The general style of the work is attractive, and the narrative spirited and bold—well
suited to the daring and hazardous course of life led by the adventurer. This book is illustrated
by several excellent engravings.”

—Baltimore American.

“The biography of an African slaver as taken from his own lips, and giving his adventures
in this traffic for twenty years. With great natural keenness of perception and complete
communicativeness, he has literally unmasked his real life, and tells both what he
was and what he saw, the latter being the Photograph of the Negro in Africa, which has
been so long wanted. A nephew of Mr. Mayer has illustrated the volume with eight admirable
drawings. We should think no book of the present day would be received with
so keen an interest.”

—Home Journal.

“Capt. Canot has passed most of his life since 1819 on the ocean, and his catalogue of
adventures at sea and on land, rival in grotesqueness and apparent improbability the marvels
of Robinson Crusoe.”

—Evening Post.

“If stirring incidents, hair-breadth escapes, and variety of adventure, can make a book
interesting, this must possess abundant attractions.”

—Newark Daily Advertiser.

“This is a true record of the life of one who had spent the greater part of his days in
dealing in human flesh. We commend this book to all lovers of adventure.”

—Boston
Christian Recorder.

“We would advise every one who is a lover of `books that are books'—every one who
admires Le Sage and De Foe, and has lingered long over the charming pages of Gil Blas
and Robinson Crusoe—every one, pro-slavery or anti-slavery, to purchase this book.”

—
Buffalo Courier.

Rev. Samuel Osgood's Two Popular Books.

Mile Stones in our Life Journey.

SECOND EDITION.

One Volume, 12mo. Cloth. Price $1.

Opinions of the Press.

“In so small a compass we rarely meet with more Catholic sympathies, and with a
clearer or more practical view of the privileges enjoyed by, and the duties enjoined, upon
us all, at any stage of our mortal pilgrimage.”

—Church Journal.

“Some passages remind us forcibly of Addison and Goldsmith.”

—Independent.

“This little volume is one of those books which are read by all classes at all stages of
life, with an interest which loses nothing by change or circumstances.”

—Pennsylvanian.

“He writes kindly; strongly and readably; nor is their any thing in this volume of a
narrow, bigoted, or sectarian character.”

—Life Illustrated.

“His counsels are faithful and wholesome, his reflection touching, and the whole is
clothed in a style graceful and free.”

—Hartford Relig. Herald.

“This is a volume of beautiful and cogent essays, virtuous in motive, simple in expression,
pertinent and admirable in logic, and glorious in conclusion and climax.”

—Buffalo
Express.

“It is written with exquisite taste. is full of beautiful thought most feliciously expressed,
and is pervaded by a genial and benevolent spirit.”

—Dr. Sprague.

“Almost every page has a tincture of elegant scholarship, and bears witness to an extensive
reading of good authors.”

—Bryant.

II.

The Hearth-Stone;
THOUGHTS UPON HOME LIFE IN OUR CITIES.

BY SAMUEL OSGOOD,
AUTHOR OF “STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHY,” “GOD WITH MEN,” ETO.

FOURTH EDITION.

One Volume, 12mo. Cloth. Price $1.

Criticisms of the Press.

“This is a volume of elegant and impressive essays on the domestic relations and religious
duties of the household. Mr. Osgood writes on these interesting themes in the most
charming and animated style, winning the reader's judgment rather than coercing it to the
author's conclusions. The predominant sentiments in the book are purity, sincerity, and
love. A more delightful volume has rarely been published, and we trust it will have a
wide circulation, for its influence must be salutary upon both old and young.”

—Commercial
Advertiser.

“The `Hearth-Stone' is the symbol of all those delightful truths which Mr. Osgood here
connects with it. In a free and graceful style, varying from deep solemnity to the most
genial and lively tone, as befits his range of subjects, he gives attention to wise thoughts
on holy things, and homely truths. His volume will find many warm hearts to which it
will address itself.”

—Christian Examiner.

A Practical Book on the Breeding of Fish.

A COMPLETE TREATISE ON
Artificial Fifh-Breeding:
INCLUDING THE REPORTS ON THE SUBJECT MADE TO THE FRENCH
ACADEMY AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, AND PARTICULARS
OF THE DISCOVERY AS PURSUED IN ENGLAND.

TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
WM. H. FRY.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

One Volume. 12mo. Cloth. Price 75 cents.

Opinions of the Press.

“A very genial and entertaining, though practical and scientific book. No one who
loves the existence in our rivers, brooks, or lakes, of trout and salmon, should be without
it.”

—Broome Republic.

“In this little volume, the whole process of fish-culture is described so plainly and with
so much minuteness that any person will have no difficulty in informing himself sufficiently
well to engage in the business; provided he has the necessary facilities and leisure, with a
good running stream or pond, and the proper attention, a great brood of fishes may be
hatched from the eggs, and raised up for the market or the table; and such delicacies are
tront and salmon, that it is evident that the business of producing them for sale may be
made profitable.”

—Worcester Palladium.

“This discovery is treated as a matter of great public benefit in France and England,
where it is practised under the direction and patronage of Government, and is beginning to
work its results in stocking rivers and lakes, with the finest species of fish, where few or
none have before existed for many years.”

—Ohio Cultivator.

“Every farmer who has a stream flowing through his land, or miller who wishes to turn
his ponds to some account, should make himself acquainted with the details of the book.”

—Newark Daily Advertiser.