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BY HERMAN MELVILLE. REDBURN.

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One Volume, 12mo, Muslin, $1 00; Paper, 75 cents.

Ships and the sea, and those who plow it, with their belongings on shore—these
subjects are identitled with Herman Melville's name, for he has most unquestionably
made them his own. No writer, not even Marryat himself, has observed them
more closely or pictured them more impressively.—Albion.

A delightful book. A quiet vein of humor runs through it that will better repay
the exploring than many of the veins will gold-digging.—Courier.

It is unquestionably a work of genius, and quite as interesting as it is unique; and
we know not where a better idea of sailor life can be found than in its pages.—
National Intelligencer.

As perfect a specimen of the naval yarn as we ever read, and displays much various
talent and power. The characters are exceedingly well drawn.—London Literary
Gazette.

This book is intensely interesting. The great charm of the work is its realness.
It seems to be fact, word for word. The tale is told simply and without the least pretension;
and yet, within its bounds, are flashes of genuine humor, strokes of pure
pathos and real and original characters.—Boston Post.

The life-like manner in which every event is brought to the reader is astonishing.—
Home Journal.

This book is in the old vein. It is written for the million, and the million will
doubtless be delighted with its racy descriptions of the life of a young sailor.—Noah's
Times and Messenger.

Redburn is a clever book. * * * All who have read “Omoo” will remember that
the author is an adept in the sketching of beautiful originals.—Blackwood's Magazine.

The freshness and rich coloring of his writings, with his easy and pointed style,
his humor and descriptions of scenery and character, have earned for him the name
of the Defoe of the Sea.—Baltimore American.

Redburn will prove a most readable book.—Richmond Whig.

The style of the book is exceedingly attractive. In our view it has higher merits
than any other volume from the same pen.—Hartford Republican.

Redburn is no ordinary book. If an imaginary narrative, it is the most life-like,
natural fiction since Robinson Crusoe.—Southern Literary Messenger.

In the filling up there is a simplicity, an ease, which may win the attention of a
child, and there is a reflection which may stir the profoundest depths of manhood.—
Literary World.

Herman Melville is one of the few who has made a distinct mark on the literature
of his time.—Philadelphia North American.

The author of this volume needs no commendation. He has already found his
audience, and it is not wanting in numbers, in taste, in discrimination. No writer
plans better than he; no one uses better materials, or gives them better workmanship;
no one puts on a more exquisite finish.—Worcester Palladium.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York.

BY HERMAN MELVILLE. MARDI.

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2 Volumes, 12mo, Muslin, $1 75; Paper, $1 50.

A work such as was never heard of before. You might accumulate upon it all
the epithets which Madame de Sevigné affectionated. Fancy Daphnis and Chloe
dancing I know not what strange gavotte with Aristotle and Spinoza, escorted by
Gargantua and Gargamelle. Mardi is the modern political world. This part is the
most piquant of the book. The colossal machine invented by Mr. Melville might
be compared to the American Panorama now placarded on the walls of London in
these terms: “Gigantic original American Panorama, now on exhibition in the great
American Hall; the prodigious moving Panorama of the Gulf of Mexico, the Falls of
St. Anthony, and of the Mississippi, covering an extent of canvass four miles long, and
representing more than 4000 miles of scenery.”—Translated from the “Revue de Deux
Mondes.”

From the first chapter of the book to the last, where the hero is swept from our
sight in a cloud of spray, the book is a magnificent drama.—Bentley's Miscellany.

Mardi is a purely original invention, an extraordinary book. It is a species of Utopia,
or, rather, a sea voyage in which we discover human nature. There is a world
of poetical, thoughtful, ingenious, moral writing in it, exhibiting the most various reflection
and reading. Is it not significant that we should soon be swept beyond the
current of the isles into this world of high discourse—revolving the conditions, the
duties, and destinies of men?—New York Literary World.

Mardi has posed us. It has struck our head like one of those blows which set
every thing dancing and glancing before your eyes like splintered sun's rays. The
images are brilliant; the adventures superb.—London Literary Gazette.

Full of pictures from the under world.—London Athenæum.

Mardi is full of all Oriental delights.—Home Journal.

The reader who has business in Mardi will find it rich in wisdom and brilliant with
beauty. It is a magnificent allegory, wherein the world is seen as in a mirror. The
germ of the oak is not more surely hid in the acorn than Melville's fame in this book.—
Chronotype.

An extraordinary production. Mardi is the world.—Musical Times.

There is strange interest, at times replete with power of a peculiar and uncommon
kind.—Blackwood.

A sort of retina picture, or inverted view of the world, under the name of Mardi.
Typee and Omoo are to this work as a seven-by-nine sketch of a sylvan lake with a
lone hunter, or a boy fishing, compared with the cartoons of Raphael.—Dem. Rev.

A wonderful book; at once enthusiastic and epigrammatic; it burns at one and
the same time with an intense and richly colored glow of poetic ardor, and the more
glittering, but paler fires of an artful rhetoric.—London Morning Chronicle.

Charles Lamb might have imagined such a party as Mr. Melville imagines at Pluto's
table—London Examiner.

The public will discover in him, at least, a capital essayist, in addition to the fascinating
novelist and painter of sea life.—Literary World.

BY HERMAN MELVILLE. OMOO.

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After the pungent and admirably written narrative of that accomplished, able seaman,
Herman Melville, few books of the same class but must appear flat and unprofitable.
Omoo would have found readers at any time; and that although twenty publishers
had combined with fifty authors to deluge the public with the Pacific Ocean
during the five previous years.—Blackwood's notice of Coulter's Cruise.

Let Mr. Melville write as much as he will, provided always he writes as well as
now, and he shall find us greedy devourers of his productions. He has a rare pen
for the delineation of character; an eye for the humorous and grotesque which is
worth a Jew's; for the description of natural scenery he is not to be beaten, either
on this side of the Atlantic or the other. His pencil is most distinct, the coloring
beautiful and rich. As for invention, he will bear comparison with the most cunning
of the modern French school. * * * At the last page of his second work, Mr.
Melville is as fresh and vigorous as at the first line of the book which preceded it.
Lkie his reader, he leaves off with an appetite.—London Times.

Unlike most sequels, Omoo is equal to its predecessor. The character of the composition
is clear, fresh, vivacious, and full of matter.—London Spectator.

The adventures are depicted with force and humor.—London Athenæum.

Some of the scenes are like cabinet pictures.—London Critic.

Written in a style worthy of Philip Quarles or Robinson Crusoe.—Lon. Lit. Gaz.

It would be difficult to imagine a man better fitted to describe the impressions such
a life and such scenes are calculated to call forth, than the auther of Omoo. Every
variety of character, and scene, and incident, he studies and describes with equal
gusto.—London People's Journal.

A stirring narrative of very pleasant reading. It possesses much of the charm that
has made Robinson Crusoe immortal—life-like description. It commands attention,
as if old interest were created by the narratives—


“Of Raleigh, Frobisher, and Drake—
Adventurous hearts, who bartered bold
Their English steel for Spanish gold.”
The history is one of comparatively new lands and new people. His account of the
natives corresponds with that of Kotzebue and others.—Douglas Jerrold's Paper.

Mr. Melville has more than sustained his widely-spread reputation in these volumes.
Omoo and Typee are actually delightful romances of real life, embellished
with powers of description, and a graphic skill of hitting off characters, little inferior
to the highest order of novel and romance writers.—Albion.

A curious and fascinating narrative.—Anglo American.

These volumes contain a vast amount of exceedingly entertaining and interesting
matter.—Philadelphia Courier.

Omoo is characterized by all the animation, picturesqueness, and felicity of style
which commended the author's first writings to a second reading, even after curiosity
is satisfied by tracing out the singularity of the story.—Literary World.

BY HERMAN MELVILLE. TYPEE.

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Chateaubriand's Atala is of no softer or more romantic tone—Anacharsis scarce
presents us with images more classically exquisite.—New York Mirror.

Typee is a happy hit, whichever way you look at it—whether as travels, romance,
poetry, or humor. The bonhommie of the book is remarkable. It appears as genial
and natural as the spontaneous fruits of the island.—Morning News.

The air of freshness and romance which characterizes Typee, gives it the appearance
of an improved edition of our old favorites, Peter Wilkins and Gulliver.—Richmond
Republican.

A charming book—full of talent, composed with singular elegance, and as musical
as Washington Irving's Columbus.—Western Continent.

Enviable Herman! A happier dog it is impossible to imagine than Herman in
the Typee valley.—London Times.

Some of these pictures but require us to call the savages celestials, to have supposed
Mr. Melville to have dropped from the clouds, and to fancy some Ovidian
grace added to the narrative in order to become scenes of classic mythology.—London
Spectator.

Such is life in the valley of the Typees; and surely Rasselas, if he had had the good
luck to stumble on it, would not have gone further in his search after happiness.—
Douglas Jerrold's Magazine.

The whole narrative is most simple, most affecting, and most romantic. Ah! thou
gentle and too enchanting Fayaway, what has become of thee?—Lon. Gent's. Mag.

Since the joyous moment when we first read Robinson Crusoe, and believed it all,
and wondered all the more because we believed, we have not met with so bewitching
a work as this narrative of Herman Melville's.—London John Bull.

A book full of fresh and richly-colored matter.—London Athenæum.

This is really a very curious book. The happy valley of our dear Rasselas was
not a more romantic or enchanting scene.—London Examiner.

This is a most entertaining and refreshing book. The writer, though filling the
post of a common sailor, is certainly no common man.—London Critic.

The style is racy and pointed, and there is a romantic interest thrown around the
adventure, which to most readers will be highly charming.—American Review.

It bears the unexhausted characteristics of talent.—National Intelligencer.

The story is eventful—wonderful; some of the deeds performed by the author
and his companion almost surpass belief.—Cincinnati Herald.

A Standard National Work.

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HISTORY
OF
THE UNITED STATES,
FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY TO THE
ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT UNDER THE FEDERAL
CONSTITUTION.

BY RICHARD HILDRETH, ESQ.
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We are confident that when the merits of this history come to be known
and appreciated, it will be extensively regarded as decidedly superior to
any thing that before existed on American history, and as a valuable contribution
to American authorship. * * * These three stately volumes will be
an ornament to any library, and no intelligent American can afford to be
without the work. We have nobly patronized the great English history
of the age, let us not fail to appreciate and patronize an American history
so respectable and valuable as this certainly is.—Biblical Repository.

Mr. Hildreth has done well to bring his own earnest, downright, manly,
and sincere mind to study the facts of American history, and to describe
them to others from his own remarkable points of view, and in his own original
way. We can not help acknowledging the great value of his services
in giving us more complete, as well as very striking, and instructive, and
entertaining views of the history of our country.—Christian Register.

* * * His work fills a want, and is, therefore, most welcome. Its positive
merits, in addition to those already mentioned, are impartiality, steadiness
of view, clear appreciation of character, and, in point of style, a terseness
and conciseness not unlike Tacitus, with not a little, too, of Tacitean
vigor of thought, stern sense of justice, sharp irony, and profound wisdom.—
Methodist Quarterly Review.

We consider that Mr. Hildreth has done good service in the publication
of this work. It is apparent that it must have cost him much pains and research,
from the vast variety of facts, which are briefly but clearly stated,
and afford both instruction and entertainment to the reader. We express
our own conviction that the work will be found a very useful source of information
for the student of American history, and a safe guide to direct him
in his more full and profound researches.—Churchman.

Mr. Hildreth's work will be a standard of reference for the student of
American history, and will become a favorite in proportion as it is known.—
National Era.

A Valuable Standard Work.

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HISTORY
OF
SPANISH LITERATURE.
WITH CRITICISMS ON PARTICULAR WORKS, AND BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTICES OF PROMINENT WRITERS.

BY GEORGE TICKNOR, ESQ.
3 VOLS. 8VO, MUSLIN, $6 00; SHEEP, $6 75; HALF CALF, $7 50.

It is a contribution to the literature of the world of the highest value. It
comprehends all the information that exists in the numerous treatises that
have heretofore been published, lucidly arranged, and its various parts presented
with a detail proportioned to their comparative importance. The
style is dignified and flowing, enriched with varied learning, and fashioned
with faultless taste. The work will be classed with Prescott's great histories,
and is a production of which Americans may justly be proud. It is
brought out in the best style, and in general appearance is equal to the costliest
productions of the English press.—Journal of Commerce.

* * * In summing up upon its merits, we have only to say that it is a
book richly deserving the confidence of the literary public. It is stamped
with the impress of careful and conscientious preparation. There are no
indications of hurried getting up. Mr. Ticknor has had the rare virtue of
literary patience, the want of which sends so many half-fledged books fluttering
into print, that either fall to the ground by mere force of gravity, or
are shot on the wing by the critical sportsman. He has gone on, year after
year, adding to his stores of learning, and laying more deeply the foundation
of his literary structure, and thus his work has the mellow flavor of fruit that
has ripened on the bough. He had learned the extent and capacities of his
subject before he began to write, and was not obliged to vary his scale of
proportion as the work went on.—Christian Examiner.

He has brought to the accomplishment of his task a wide acquaintance
with general literature, a singular degree of industry, a refined and correct
taste, a spirit of cautious, temperate, though by no means ungenial criticism,
a quick sensibility to the beautiful in sentiment or form, a thorough acquaintance
with his subject in its most minute and delicate details, and the power
of flowing, graceful, and transparent composition. His historical style is,
indeed, admirable—lively, energetic, cordial, free from monotony and commonplace,
moving with the ease of a limpid stream, and, without being at
any time overloaded, embellished with the rich and tasteful ornaments appropriate
to literary disquisition. Nor is he wanting in poetical talents of
more than ordinary excellence.—New York Tribune.

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