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W. F. P. NAPIER, C.B., COL. 43D REG., &c.
HISTORY OF THE
WAR IN THE PENINSULA,
AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE,
FROM THE YEAR 1807 TO 1814.
Complete in one vol., 8vo. Price Three Dollars.
“Napier's history is regarded by the critics as one of the best narratives
that has recently been written. His style is direct, forcible, and impetuous,
carrying the reader along often in spite of himself, through scenes of the
most stirring interest and adventures full of excitement. Many of the most
distinguished and remarkable men of European history figure in these pages,
and are sketched with great distinctness of outline. Napoleon, Wellington,
Sir John Moore, Ney, Murat, and others, are the characters of the drama
which Napier describes.”
—Evening Mirror.
“We believe the Literature of War has not received a more valuable
augmentation this century than Col. Napier's justly celebrated work. Though
a gallant combatant in the field, he is an impartial historian; he exposes the
errors committed on each side, refutes many tales of French atrocity and
rapine, and does not conceal the revolting scenes of drunkenness, pillage,
ravishment, and wanton slaughter, which tarnished the lustre of the British
arms in those memorable campaigns. We think no civilian chronicler of the
events of this desperate contest has been so just to the adversary of his nation
as has this stern warrior.”
—Tribune.
“Napier's History, in addition to its superior literary merits and truthful
fidelity, presents strong claims upon the attention of all American
citizens; because the author is a large-souled philanthropist, and an inflexible
enemy to its ecclesiastical tyranny and secular despots; while his pictures
of Spain, and his portrait of the rulers in that degraded and wretched
country, form a virtual sanction of our Republican institutions, far more
powerful than any direct eulogy.”
—Post.
“The excellency of Napier's History results from the writer's happy
talent for impetuous, straight forward, soul-stirring narrative and picturing
forth of characters. The military manœuvre, march, and fiery onset, the
whole whirlwind vicissitudes of the desperate fight, he describes with dramatic
force.”
—Merchants' Magazine.
“The reader of Napier's History finds many other attractions, besides the
narrative of battles, marches, plunder, ravages, sieges, skirmishes, and
slaughter—for he learns the dreadful evils of a despotic government—the
inherent corruption of the entire system of European monarchies—the popular
wretchedness which ever accompanies the combination of a lordly, hierarchical
tyranny with the secular authority, and the assurance that the extinction
of both are essential to the peace and welfare of mankind. All
these lessons are derived from Napier's History, which, in connexion with
its literary excellence, and the accuracy of its details, render all other recommendations
utterly superfluous. It is a large, neat, and cheap volume.”
L. I. Star.
EDWARD GIBBON.
HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL
OF
THE ROMAN EMPIRE;
A new edition, revised and corrected throughout, preceded by a Preface,
and accompanied by Notes, critical and historical, relating principally
to the propagation of Christianity. By M. F. Guizot, Minister
of Public Instruction of France.
In two vols., 8vo. Price Five Dollars.
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