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New Work, Unrivaled for Interest, Value and Instruction.

The Book of the Age!

RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFETIME,
OR
MEN AND THINGS I HAVE SEEN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

BY S. G. GOODRICH,

The veritable “Peter Parley,” author of “The History of All Nations,” &c. &c.

In two volumes, 1105 pp. large 12mo., 25 Original Engravings, including
an accurate Steel Portrait of the Author. Price, Black or Scarlet
Cloth, $3 00; Scarlet Cloth, Gilt Edges, $4 00; Half Calf, Marble
Edges, $5 00; Full Calf, Gilt Edges, $7 00.

This work embraces the prominent public events of the last half century, both at home
and abroad; a complete Autobiography of the author—his early days, education, and literary
career; and an amount of original curious, and valuable Personal Incident, Anecdote,
and Description, seldom, if ever, met with in a single work. It is the Author's
Life-long Work, and nothing superior, if anything equal to it, in blended amusement
and instruction, has ever been published. Mr. Goodrich is the author and editor of
170 Volumes, of which over seven millions of copies have been sold! and
this, the great work of his life, embodies the condensed substance of his ample Literacy
and Practical Experience; the War with England in 1812-14, in which Mr. Goodrich
was a private soldier; the Hartford Convention, whose operations took place under his
immediate observation, and with most of the members of which he was personally acquainted.
Embracing curious and interesting details respecting Old Jeffersonian Democracy,
Old Federalism, and Connecticut Blue Lights; curious and marvellous
events connected with the rise and progress of Religious Sects in the United States;
with descriptions of the French Revolution of 1848, and Louis Napoleon's Coup d'Etat,
both of which the author witnessed. Also, a full account of the “PETER PARLEY'S
TALES,” of which Four Millions have been sold.

In the course of the work will be found a Gallery of Pen and Ink Portraits of
over Two Hundred Celebrated Persons—Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Kings, Queens
Emperors, Soldiers, Poets, Wits, Enthusiasts, Physicians, Preachers, Lawyers, Politicians,
Diplomatists, &c.—all described from personal acquaintance or observation—among
whom are the following:

 

George IV. William IV. Prince Albert, Queen Victoria Sir W. Scott, Lord Jeffrey, J. G. Lockhart, W. Blackwood Hannah More, Dr. Chalmers, Edw. Irving, Thos. Hood, Louis XVIII. Charles X.

Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Alex. Dumas, Mad. Catalini, Mad. Malibran, Pasta, Talma, Mlle. Mars, Rachel, Ristorl, Pope Pius IX. Pres't Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Dr. Dwight,

Henry Clay, Dan'l Webster, M. Van Buren, M. Fillmore, J. C. Fremont, General Scott, Prof. Silliman, Eli Whitney, Judge Kent, Geo. Cabot, H. G. Otis, Jas. Hillhouse, Uriah Tracy, Nath'l Smith,

Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham, Sir J. Mackintosh, King Rhio Rhio, or Dog of Dogs, Louis Phillippe, Louis Napoleon, Thos. A. Emmett, Bishop Seabury, Bishop Wainwright, Dr. Mason, Dr. Romeyn, Archibald Gracie, Minot Sherman,

Benjamin West, Fenimore Cooper, Percival, Brainerd, Willis, Hawthorne, Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs. Child, Charles Sprague, Longfellow, Pierpont, T. Buchanan Reed, Jacob Perkins.

To all which is added, the Author's recent

ANECDOTES OF TRAVEL,

In England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy, together with a Complete Catalogue
of the Author's Works, now for the first time published; with curious commentaries,
on the Counterfeit Parley Books, got up in London.

☞ The Publishers will send this work, Postage Paid, to any Post-Office in the United
States, on receipt of price as above.

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