sketches of the pioneers of that part of Ohio, and a map which possesses considerable historical interest. Quite apart from its intrinsic value, the work also deserves to be prized as a dainty specimen of handiwork, rarely surpassed by the best New York and Boston booksellers, to say nothing of those of the West. The type is sumptuous, the paper heavy, the binding neat and strong, and the general typographical arrangement extremely tasteful."

[From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.]

"After years of patient and intelligent industry, Mr. Walker has succeeded in gathering together and presenting to us, in a very condensed form, the history of the county of Athens from its first feeble beginning, with sketches and statistics relating to the bloody Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the late civil war. It is also full of statistics relating to the several towns, such as the names of the officers, county and municipal; a history of its churches, schools, libraries, newspapers; with a description of its agricultural products, and of its mineral, manufacturing, and railway resources. All this must make a volume of surpassing interest and value to the inhabitants of the county and to the people of the State generally.

"Besides the above, Mr. Walker gives us his biographical sketches of the leading men connected with the settlement and history of the county, and this feature of the work gives it a peculiar interest for us; for the larger number of these were natives of New England, and many of them men of high character and standing here. In fact, the whole enterprise, begun and carried on by the Ohio Land Company, was the work of some of the leading spirits of New England, who had been active participators in the Revolutionary war. We know not where else so much information can be obtained relating to the origin and history of this company. The men engaged in it, and the emigrants they led to the North-West Territory, gave to the population of Ohio much of the character of its present population and many of the elements of their extraordinary prosperity.

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The volume is beautifully printed, and is in all respects one of the handsomest and most complete local histories we have ever seen."

[From the Cincinnati Chronicle.]

"The volume is one of the most admirable local histories we have ever seen. * * * Mr. Walker has done his work well and thoroughly. He has exhibited excellent taste and judgment, and his style is free from the objectionable features which too often mar and render comparatively valueless histories of this class."

[From the Cleveland Leader.]

"A book full of interest to every citizen of Athens county, and incidentally to every inhabitant of Ohio, as a record of the first settlement of the State. * *** Mr. Walker seems to have enjoyed unre. stricted facilities for the collection of data, and has worked up his subject with evident care and judgment. The result is, perhaps, the best county history ever written in the State."

Number Three.

Clark's Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9.

COL

OL. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK'S SKETCHES of his CAMPAIGN IN THE ILLINOIS IN 1778-9, with an Introduction by Hon. HENRY PIRTLE, of Louisville, Ky., and an Appendix containing the Public and Private Instructions to Col. Clark and Maj. Bowman's Journal of the Taking of Post St. Vincents.

One volume, 8vo., pp. viii, 119, finely printed on tinted paper, with a Portrait of General Clark, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $2.00

A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Portrait on India paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $4.00.

[From the Atlantic Monthly.]

"The publishers of the Ohio Valley Historical Series here follow the narrative of Colonel Bouquet's Expedition (already noticed in these pages) with another volume possessing the same curious interest for the student of history, and the same fascination for the lover of exquisitely printed books; for the series, so far, is luxurious in paper and binding, and in typographical execution is surpassed by few productions of the American press.

"Colonel Clark's campaign was a very brief one, and in fighting not particularly arduous, as would appear from his own showing; but it was full of daring and heroic endurance; it resulted immediately in the reduction of the British military posts between the Ohio and the Mississippi, thus giving tranquility to all the frontier settlements, and it finally secured to us all this vast territory. ****

"A little of the romance which belongs to all French colonial history hangs about Colonel Clark's unconscious page, and his sketch affords here and there a glimpse of the life of the babitans in the old seventeenth-century settlements of the French at Kaskaskias, Cahokia, and St. Vincents; but for the most part it is a plain and summary account of the military operations, and depends for its chief interest upon the view it affords of the character of as brave and shrewd a soldier and as bad a speller as ever lived. Some of his strokes of orthography are unrivaled by the studied grotesqueness of Artemus Ward or Mr. Yellowplush; he declares with perfect good faith that on a certain occasion he was very much "adjutated;" and it is quite indifferent to him whether he write privilidge, happiniss, comeing, attacted, adjutation, sucksess, leathergy, intiligence, silicit, acoutri

ments, refutial, and anctious, or the more accepted forms of the same words, as like a bona fide bad speller, he is quite as apt to do. ****

"The letter is now printed for the first time. We heartily commend it to all who love to taste history at its sources, or who enjoy character. It is a curious contrast to the polite narrative of Colonel Bouquet, but it is quite as interesting, and the deeds it records have turned out of vastly greater consequence than those which the brave Swiss performed.”

[From the Historical Magazine.]

"The importance of the expedition of Colonel Clark is known to every well-informed person as that to which we are mainly indebted for our possession, to-day, of the immense range of country west of the Alleghanies; and this personal narrative of that expedition, from the pen of its commander, it will be seen, is necessarily a paper of great historic interest, both as a portion of the local history of the West and as an element in the history of our relations with Great Britain, France, and Spain. The typography of the volume is excellent."

[From the Nation.]

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"A very original and striking revolutionary character is portrayed by himself in Col. George Rogers Clark's Sketch of his Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9.' ** * Clark's military capacity was certainly of a high order, and it is seldom one reads of a commander possessing such boldness, resources, and tact. He understood perfectly, for military purposes, the Indian nature, and how to exhibit at the right time courageous defiance and magnanimity. * * The operations at Kaskaskia and Vincennes are described in a very graphic but truly modest manner-the march from the former post to take the latter being one of extraordinary hardship and enterprise. The odd spelling of the French, Spanish, and Indian names mentioned by Clark, and his ordinary orthography, too, make his narrative quite amusing. Some persons may guess what Messicippa,' La prary de rush' (La Prairie du Rocher), 'Canoweay' (Kanawha), adjutated,' and 'adgetation,' stand for. * * The notes of the editor of this volume add very much to its readableness and historical completeness."

[From the New Albany Ledger.]

"The quaint style of the original is faithfully retained, with Clark's orthography, punctuation, capital letters, and other peculiarities. The narrative is exceedingly interesting, and bears the impress of truth upon its pages. *** The volume should find a place in the library of every Indianian who takes an interest in the events which had such momentous influence on the destinies of the region of country in which we now live."

[From the Louisville Courier-Journal.]

"The volume is gotten up in antique, and realizes all that the antiquary could desire. Judge Pirtle's preface is not the least valuable of the contents, which are in every way rare and valuable. It presents the reader with a distinct and graphic picture of Clark and his times.”

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Number Five.

Smith's Captivity with the Indians.

REPRINT OF "AN ACCOUNT of the REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES in the Life and Travels of Col. JAMES SMITH (now a citizen of Bourbon county, Ky.), during his Captivity with the Indians in the years 1755, '56, '57, '58, and '59. In which the Customs, Manners, Traditions, Theological Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline, and Encampments, Treatment of Prisoners, etc., are better explained and more minutely related than has been heretofore done by any author on that subject. Together with a Description of the Soil, Timber, and Waters, where he traveled with the Indians during his captivity.

"To which is added a Brief Account of some very Uncommon Occurrences, which transpired after his return from captivity; as well as of the Different Campaigns carried on against the Indians to the Westward of Fort Pitt, since the year 1755 to the present date.

"Written by himself. Lexington; printed by John Bradford, on Main street, 1799."

One volume, 8vo., pp. xii., 190, finely printed on tinted paper, and neatly bound in cloth extra, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $2.50.

A few large-paper copies have been printed on heavy tinted paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $5.00.

This work presents a vivid picture of the vagrant, precarious lives of the Indians, little more than a century ago, in the then unbroken wilderness which has given place to the prosperous State of Ohio; written without any pretense to style or learning, it bears every impress of truthfulness, and, as a faithful record of an eye-witness of their condition, habits, etc., deserves to be

perpetuated. It has been several times reprinted, with more or less accuracy; but all the editions may be now classed among the scarce books.

We have prefixed to this edition a somewhat fuller account of the author and his family than has heretofore been given, and added an Appendix of Illustrative Notes by Mr. William M. Darlington, of Pittsburgh, which will be found of considerable interest and value.

[From the Atlantic Monthly.]

"The narrative of Colonel Smith refers to the pioneer existence during a space of time when its perils, privations, and atrocities seemed an established condition of things. *** It is the story of a man of clear, strong mind, with a vein of humor which has now and then a very witty expression-almost a modern expression; and though the style has few solicited graces, it is plain that this old Indian hunter had some good literary instincts. * * * Otherwise, the narrative of Colonel Smith is marked by few indulgences of sentiment, though always by good feeling, and a shrewd and sympathetic observation of nature as he saw it in the wilderness and the savages about him. * * * There has probably never been any study of Indian life and character more sincere and practical than his; and we know of none so interesting. On the whole, we believe the reader will think all the better of the savages for knowing them through him; though as for their unfitness to be guests at a small tea party, we suppose there never can be any doubt. We should like to repeat here some of the things Colonel Smith tells of them; but his context is precious, and we forbear, for the reader's own sake."

[From the Historical Magazine.]

"The narrative of such a man, concerning what he actually saw and endured, would be interesting under any circumstances, but in such a case as this, wherein his story extended over the history of what is now the third State of the Union, during a term of years, it necessarily possesses unusual interest to those who occupy that territory, and to all students of American history the world over. It is enriched with appropriate notes, sufficiently numerous and amply sustained by competent authorities, from the pen of our respected friend, Wm. M. Darlington, Esq., of Pittsburgh. A good index closes the volume."

[From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.]

"James Smith, the author, was a native of Pennsylvania, but later in life settled in Kentucky. He was a captive among the Indians in his boyhood, 1755-9; a leader of the Blackboys' in 1763 and 1769;