NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN PRESS. 



dents, facts, and citations from history with which it abounds, are all 

 skillfully used in support of them " " There are some facts of interest 

 in relation to the Gipsies in Scotland and America, which are brought 

 out quite fully in Mr. Simson's book/'-which "abounds in novel and 

 interesting matter . . . and will well repay perusal." ' Tertinent anec- 

 dotes, illustrating the habits and craft of the Gipsies, may be picked up 

 at random in any part of the book." 



New York Evening Post. " The editor corrects some popular 

 notions in regard to the habits of the Gipsies. They are not now, in 

 the main, the wanderers they used to be. Through intermarriage with 

 other people, and from other causes, they have adopted more stationary 

 modes of life, and have assimilated to the manners of the countries in 



which they live As the editor of this volume eays : ' They 



carry the language, the associations, and the sympathies of their race, 

 and their peculiar feelings toward the community with them ; and, as 

 residents of towns, have greater facilities, from others of their race re- 

 siding near them, for perpetuating their language, than when strolling 

 over the country.' " " We have no space for such full extracts as we 

 should like to give." 



New York Journal of Commerce. " We have seldom 

 found a more readable book than Simson's History of the Gipsies. A large 

 part of the volume is necessarily devoted to the local histories of fami- 

 lies in England (Scotland), but these go to form part of one of the most 

 interesting chapters of human history." " We commend the book as 

 very readable, and giving much instruction on a curious subject." 



Neiv York Times. "Mr has done good service to the 



American public by reproducing here this very interesting and valuable 

 volume." " The work is more interesting than a romance, and that it is 

 full of facts is very easily seen by a glance at the index, which is very 

 minute, and adds greatly to the value of the book." 



New York Albion. " An extremely curious work is a History 

 of the Gipsies." " The wildest scenes in ' Lavengro,' as for instance the 

 fight with the Flaming Tinman, are comparatively tame beside some 

 of the incidents narrated here." 



Hours at Home (now Scribner's Monthly). "Tears 

 ago we read, with an interest we shall never forget, Borrow's book on 

 the Gipsies of Spain. We have now a history of this mysterious race 

 as it exists in the British Islands, which, though written before Bor- 

 row's, has just been published. It is the result of much time and 



patient labor, and is a valuable contribution toward a complete history 

 of this extraordinary people. The Gipsy race and the Gipsy language 

 are subjects of much interest, socially and ethnologically." "He esti- 

 mates the number of Gipsies in Great Britain at 250,000, and the whole 

 number in Europe and America at 4,000,000." "The work is what it 

 profesres to be, a veritable history a history in which Gipsy life has 

 been stripped of everything pertaining to fiction, so that the reader 

 will see depicted in their true character this strange people. . . . . . And 



yet, these pages of sober history are crowded with facts and incidents 

 stranger and more thrilling than the wildest imaginings of the toman- 

 tic school." 



NEW YORK: JAMES MILLER. 



