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THE SEA-LIONS ; OR, THE LOST SEALERS. 



^ 'i^ale cf tf)s Antarctic ©cean. 



BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ., 



Author of the " Mohicans," " 0;ik Openings," " Tlie Pilot," &c., &c. 



Two volumes. Price 50 cents. 



Cooper is always at home upon the sea, and never gets afloat without maning 

 a most entertaining and readable book. In these volumes the adventures of 

 two schooners in search of seals among the islands in the Antarctic Ocean, are 

 surrounded by all the fascination which they can derive fiom hair-breadth 'scapes 

 and accidents by flood. Cooper treaiis the deck with the same exulting power 

 which McGregor felt when he planted his foot upon his native heath. The cha- 

 racters are well sustained, and the Puritan Deacon and the Yankee voyager (with 

 slight allowances for caricature) are to the life. The tale turns upon the adven- 

 tures of two sealing vessels that become locked in the ice ; and the sufferings of 

 the crews acquire a painful interest at the present moment, with the recollection of 

 the missing crews of the English Arctic Expedition before us. Mr. Cooper shows 

 great skill in delineating the regions of eternal ice, and his narrative of the hard- 

 ships the adventurers undergo, and the hair-breadth escapes from death by the 

 frost, are told in a most powerful manner. 



THE OAK OPENINGS; 



OR 



THE BEE-HUNTER. 

 BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ. 



Price 50 cents. 



The following Notices have already appeared. 



" It is one of those life-picturing books which can scarcely fail to please every 

 reader. Western character, often created by circumstances, or if not created, 

 shaped thereby, assumes a variety of feature, the contemplation of which never 

 fails to afford rich amusement. Cooper has, in this novel, drawn some of the 

 happiest scenes that even his high descriptive powers have ever produced." — Troy 

 Whig. 



" Western character, shaped and controlled as it is by the force of circumstan- 

 ces, is rarely portrayed, and there is a happy vein of humor pervading the work, 

 that will secure for it a large circle of readers. The title is purely the language of 

 the Far West, where formerly the pursuit of the wild bee, and the appropriation 

 of its stored-up sweets, formed a peculiar and lucrative employment to quite a 

 number of the hardy pioneer settlers." — Tribune. 



" Belongs to the early class of tales by the author ; and, in our opinion, equal 

 to the very best of that series." — Weekly Dispatch. 



" The scenes are laid at home. The book is, we are happy to say, in the au- 

 thor's old style; and to say this is to establish its merit." — Boston Atlas. 



