RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF DIX & EDWARDS.
JUST PUBLISHED,
BY THE AUTHOR OF “WALKS AND TALKS OF AN AMERICAN
FARMER IN ENGLAND.”
A JOURNEY IN THE
SEABOARD SLAVE STATES;
By FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED.
1 Volume, 12mo. 725 Pages, with Wood Cuts. $1.50.
This work is written in the quiet, candid, good-humored, and
manly style which rendered the author's previous narrative of travel
so widely popular. The descriptions of Southern Life and Scenery
are picturesque and dramatic, and much more detailed and accurate
than those of most other writers. The book, in fact, offers just
that kind of information about the South and its institutions, which
the public now demands; less of what is extraordinary and exceptional,
and more of that which illustrates every-day life, and
general character, than has been before attempted. In matters of
controversy, the author is careful and courteous, but expresses his
own conclusions frankly and unmistakably.
The Southern Cultivator predicts that this book will have
“greater influence on the minds of voters” than Uncle Tom's
Cabin had.
The New York Daily Times says of it, “This work will be by
far the best yet published on the subject.”
The New Orleans Delta observes of the author, “Prejudiced as
his opinions were, he was not a willfully dishonest man, or an unfair
writer. We would welcome a few more men of his calibre amongst
us—prejudiced, but manly and honest.”
Putnam's Monthly.—“His calm, clear, and unprejudiced statement
will be read with deep interest, by North and South alike. As
a book of travel, merely, it is highly fascinating, by its sketches of
manners, etc., and as a book of principles, it is no less valuable.”
