THE BOOK OF THE AGE. 



RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFETIME, 



OR 



MEN AND THINGS I HAVE SEEN IN EUROPE AND AMEEICA. 

 BY S. G. GOODRICH, 



The veritable " Peter Parley," author of " The History of All Nations," &c. &c. 



In two volumes, 1105 pp. large 12mo., 25 Original Engravings, including 



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This work embraces the prominent public events of the last half century, both at horae 

 and abroad; a complete Autobiography of the author— his early days, education, and lit- 

 erary career; and an amount of original curious, and valuable Personal Incident, Anec- 

 dote, and Description, seldom, if ever, met with in a single work. It is the Author's 

 Life-long Wokk, and nothing superior, if anything equal to it, in blended amusement 

 and instruction, has ever been published. Mr. Goodrich is the author and editor of 

 ITO Volumes, of which over seven millions of copies have been sold! and 

 this, the great work of his life, embodies the condensed substance of his ample Literavy 

 and Practical Evperience ; the War icith England in 1812-14, in which Mr. Goodrich 

 was a private soldier; the Ilaiiford Convention, whose operations took place under his 

 immediate observation, and with most of the members of which he was personally ac- 

 quainted. Embracing curious and interesting details respecting Old Jeffernonian De- 

 mocracy, Old Federalism, and Connecticut Blue Lights; curious and marvellous 

 events connected with the rise and progress of Religious Sects in the United States; 

 with descriptions of the French Revolution o/lS4S, and Louis jS^apoleon's Coup d'Etat, 

 both of which the author witnessed. Also, a full account of the " PETER PARLEY'? 

 TALES," of which Kour Millions have been sold. 



In the course of the work will be found a Gallery of Pex axd Ink Poetkaits of 

 over Two Hundred Celebrated P^;'6^o?«s— Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Kings, Queens, 

 Emperors, Soldiers, Poets, Wits, Enthusiasts, Physicians, Preachers, Lawy'ei's, Politi- 

 cians, Diplomatists, &c.— all described from personal acquaintance or observation — among 

 whom are the following: 



George IV. Lamartine, Henry Clay, Duke of "Wellington, Benjamin West, 

 William IV. Victor Hugo, Dan'l Webster, Lord Brougham, Fenimore Cooper, 

 Prince Albert, Alex. Dumas, M. Van Buren, Sir J. Mackintosh, Percival, 

 Queen Victoria Mad. Catalini, M.Fillmore, King Rhio Rhio, or Brainerd, 

 Sir W. Scott, Mad. Malibran, J. C. Fremont, Dog of Dogs, Willis, 



Lord Jeffrey, Pasta, General Scott, Louis Phillippe, Hawthorne, 



J. G. Lockhart, Talma, Prof Silliman, Louis Napoleon, Mi-s. Sigourney, 



W. BJackwood Mile. Mars, Eli Whitney, Thos. A. Emmett, Miss Sedgwick, 

 Hannah More, Rachel, Judge Kent, Bishop Seabury, Mrs. Child, 



Dr. Chalmers, Ristori, GeoT Cabot, Bishop Wainwright, Charles Sprague, 



Edw. Irving, Pope Pius IX. H. G. Otis, Dr. Mason, Longfellow, 



Thos. Hood, Preset Monroe, Jas. Hillhouse, Dr. Romcyn, Pierpont, 



Louis XVIII. J. Q. Adams, Uriah Tracy, Archibald Gracie, T. Buchanan Eoed, 

 Charles X. Dr. Dwight, Nath'l Smith, Minot Sherman, Jacob Perkins. 

 To all which is added, the Author's recent 



ANECDOTES OF TRAVEL, 



In England. Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy, together with a Complete Catalogttj 

 OF TiiK Aittiior's Works, HOW for the first time published; with curious commentario-' 

 on the Counterfeit Parley Books, got up in London. 



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