Number Three.

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

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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 ca 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 habitans 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.]

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."

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[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 Four.

McBride's Pioneer Biography.

IONEER BIOGRAPHY: SKETCHES of the Lives of SOME OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO. By the late JAMES MCBRIDE, of Hamilton.

Vol. I contains the Lives of JOHN REILY, THOMAS IRWIN, JOEL COLLINS, ISAAC ANDERSON, SAMUEL DICK, JOSEPH HOUGH, and JOHN WOODS. With a Portrait of the Author.

Vol. II contains the Lives of ROBERT MCCLELLAN, ISAAC PAXTON, PIERSON SAYRE, HENRY WEAVER, JEREMIAH BUTTERFIELD, JOHN WINGATE, DANIEL DOTY, MATTHEW HUESTON, CAPT. JOHN CLEVES SYMMES, JOHN SUTHERLAND, THE BIGHAM FAMILY, and DR. JACOB LEWIS.

Two volumes, 8vo., pp. xiv., 352, 288, finely printed on tinted paper, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, Vol. I, $3.50; Vol. II, $3.00.

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, Vol. I. $7.00; Vol. II, $6.00.

These sketches will be found to possess an interest beyond the mere details of the lives of the individuals. They were all of them men who took an active part in the settlement of the Miami country, were prominent in public affairs both civil and military, and participated in many of the early conflicts with the Indians in Ohio and Kentucky, and in the campaigns of Gens. Harmar, St. Clair, Scott, and Wayne; so that, interspersed in the narrative, will be found many details of interest concerning the early struggles, from the notes and recollections of eye witnesses, which have never before appeared in print.

[From the Cincinnati Commercial.]

"The manuscript collections of the late James McBride, of Hamilton, Ohio, of which this series of biographical sketches form part, have had a local celebrity for many years, and many persons throughout

the country have been deeply interested in them. Mr. McBride was an educated gentleman, who gave much attention to personal recollections of early times in the valley of the Great Miami, and who wrote accounts of his old neighbors, friends, and acquaintances, that now form contributions of great value to pioneer history. We have not seen in many days a more elegant volume."

[From the Historical Magazine.]

"It is a series of sketches of the lives and services of some of the pioneers of the West, prepared from original and authentic material, for his own amusement, by one of their own number; and it preserves and circulates, also, carefully made copies of several important papers, journals, etc., which, but for Mr. McBride's thoughtful preservation of them, might have been lost forever.

"These homely biographies, and others of the same class, in which are recorded the virtues and hardships of those who led the hosts who have since migrated to the West, are, in fact, the only existing annals of the early West; and to them must those go who seek information concerning the day of small things' in that mighty empire, the history of which, sooner or later, must be written in all its fullness and with painstaking fidelity."

[From the Nation.]

"These biographies are by no means confined in their relations to Butler County, but add much to our knowledge of Revolutionary engagements, of the colonization of the Ohio Valley both north and south of the river, of the war of 1812, and even (following the descendants of the pioneers) of the late Rebellion. They may be read, therefore, with a great deal of pleasure and solid profit by the present generation, and will long be prized for their genealogies."

[From the Cincinnati Chronicle.]

"Although termed 'unpretending sketches' they are rich in valuable material for the future historian, and possess a present interest as faithful biographies of some of the early settlers of Ohio. * **The elegant volume before us bears every evidence of the careful and yet not unskilled hand which has collected barren facts and isolated fragments, and combined them in such a manner as to present an admirable epitome of local history."

[From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.]

"Mr. McBride, the author of these biographies, who died in 1859 at the age of 70 years, and who was at that date one of the oldest and best known pioneers of Southern Ohio, was well qualified for this work by histastes, early associations, and opportunities for collecting such materials. ***They certainly are not only well written, but are of thrilling interest, and of the greateat value as memorials of the early settlers of Southern Ohio, and of their protracted and bitter contests with the Indians-contests, in all respects, such as the fathers of New England had but a very slight taste of."

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Number Five.

Smith's Captivity with the Indians.

REPRINT OF "AN ACCOUNT of the REMARK

ABLE 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