WILEY AND PUTNAM'S ADVERTISEMENT 



arrest the eye and exercise the mind of an acconnplished and intelligent 

 writer. We had marked a number of passajjes for extract, but are prevent- 

 ed, by a press of other matter, from giving them to-day. We can safely 

 recommend the work, as a whole, to the patronage of all classes." — Brook- 

 iyn Eagle. 



" Mr. Headley's Letters are daguerreotypes of Italy and her people. W* 

 Know of no more vivid or faithful portraitures of the common people of 

 Italy, their character, modes of life, peculiarities, &c. Mr. Headley is % 

 keen observer, a ^ood describer, and possesses a joyous, hoping, Icvinff 

 ajurit."— A*. Y. Daily Tribune. 



'-' Headley's Letters from Italy are racy, vivid, and poetical." — JSlew Or- 

 leans Bee. 



" These letters must please generally, but to those who have enjoyed the 

 privilege of passing over the same ground and moving amid similar occur- 

 rences, they are very valuable. They are truly American, and although 

 we hold to the most extended catholicity on the book subject, a catholicity 

 esteemed heterodox, we are glad to see foreign countries described in do- 

 mestic phrase, and to enjoy the description the more by means of the com- 

 parisons and illustrations of an intelligent countryman. If the selections 

 of the publishers continue to be made with the same taste and discrimina- 

 tion, they will d» much towards forming an American Literature." — Eve- 

 ning Gazette. • 



" These Letters are very graphic and interesting." — JST. O. Picayune 



We defy the most stupid of readers to tarry by the way in the perusal of 

 Mr. Headley's letters ; for he manages, some how or other, to be in a con- 

 stant eddy of excitement, at the top wave of some stormy or tumultuous 

 event. In the description of these he is at home. His style is quick, 

 glancing, apprehensive — admirably suited to sustain an interest in the de- 

 scription of a wreck, a storm at sea, or mountain incidents; and particu- 

 larly energetic in a battle-scene." — J\r. Y. Courier. 



" Headley's Letters from Italy, are the production of an evidently highly 

 cultivated young American, who has visited that 'classic land,' and sympa- 

 thized alike with the beautiful and grand, the lively and humorous objects, 

 that passed before hirn. He seems to be an acute observer of men and 

 things, as well as a faithful delineator. The work is full of lively interest; 

 and, considering the fact that so much has been written of that ' land of art 

 and soi g,' we think it worthy of the highest praise in that the writtr ha« 

 described so many new and interesting objects. The description of Rome 

 is the best we have ever seen, not excepting those found in the most suc- 

 ce«sfu. Journals of English travellers in Italy. The impression, on reading 

 parts of it, is, that Italy has never before been described." — Hunfs Mer, 

 Mag 



