SECOND EDITION. 



SIMSON'S HISTORY OF THE GIPSIES. 



575 PAGES. CROWN 8vo. PRICE, $2.00. 



NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN PRESS. 



National Quarterly Review." The title of this work gives 

 a correct idea of its character ; the matter fully justifies it. Even in its 

 original form it was the most interesting and reliable history of the 

 Gipsies with which we were acquainted. But it is now much en- 

 larged, and brought down to the present time. The disquisition on the 

 past, present, and future of that singular race, added by the editor, 

 greatly enhances the value of the work, for it embodies the results of 

 extensive research and careful investigation." " The chapter on the Gip- 

 sy language should be read by all who take any interest either in com- 

 parative philology or ethnology ; for it is much more curious and in- 

 structive than most people would expect from the nature of the subject. 

 The volume is well printed and neatly bound, and has the advantage of 

 a copious alphabetical index." 



Congregational Revieiv. (Boston.) " The senior partner in 

 the authorship of this book was a Scotchman who made it his life-long 

 pleasure to go a ' Gipsy hunting,' to use his own phrase. He was a per- 

 sonal friend of Sir Walter Scott His enthusiasm was genuine, his 



diligence great, his sagacity remarkable, and his discoveries rewarding." 

 " The book is undoubtedly the fullest and most reliable which our lan- 

 guage contains on the subject." " This volume is valuable for its in- 

 struction, and exceedingly amusing anecdotically. It overruns with the 

 humorous." " The subject in its present form is novel, and we freely 

 add, very sensational." " Indeed, the book assures us that our country 

 is full of this people, mixed up as they have become, by marriage, with 

 all the European stocks during the last three centuries. The amalgama 

 tion has done much to merge them in the general current of modern 

 education and civilization ; yet they retain their language with closest 

 tenacity, as a sort of Freemason medium of intercommunion ; and 

 while they never are willing to own their origin among outsiders, they 

 are very proud of it among themselves." " We had regarded them as 

 entitled to considerable antiquity, but we now find that they were none 

 other than the ' mixed multitude ' which accompanied the Hebrew ex- 

 ode (Ex. XII 38) under Moses straggling or disaffected Egyptians, who 

 went along to ventilate their discontent, or to improve their fortunes. 

 .... We are not prepared to take issue with these authors on any of 

 the points raised by them." 



Methodist Quarterly "Review. " Have we Gipsies among 

 us ? Yea, verily, if Mr. Simson is to be believed, they swarm our country 

 in secret legions. There is no place on the four quarters of the globe 

 where some of them have not penetrated. Even in New England a sly 

 Gipsy girl will enter the factory as employe, will by her allurements 

 win a young Jonathan to marry her, and in due season, the 'cute gen- 

 tleman will find himself the father of a young brood of intense Gipsies. 

 The mother will have opened to her young progeny the myetery and 



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