PARKMAN'S WORKS. 



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The Pioneers of France in the New World. 



(I. Huguenots in Florida. II. Samuel de Champlain.) Fifth Edition. Small Svo. Cloth, $2.50; half 



calf, $4-50. 



In vigor and pointedness of description, Mr. Parkman may be counted superior to Irving. — New 

 ' York Tribune'- _ , 



■ It is a narrative which has all the animation, variety, and interest of a romance, and to most readers it 

 will be as fresh and novel as a pure creation of the imaginative faculty. — New York World. 



Ill interest this work exceeds any novel which has been published during the year. Every page bears 

 unmistakable impress of power, — power of patient investigation, power of dramatic conception, power of 

 philosophic thought, power of pictorial diction. — Boston transcript. 



One of the very finest contributions to the historical literature of this country. — Providence (R. I.) 

 Press. 



The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. 



Fourth Edition. Small Svo. Cloth, $2.50 ; half calf, $4-50. 



We feel that he is for us a faithful and competent interpreter and commentator of Indian life, manners, 

 superstitions, and fortunes. He has a marvellous skill in observing and describing the phenomena of 

 nature, — the features and scenes of the wilderness amid which they roved. We know of no writer whose 

 pages are so real and vivid in qualities harmonizing with his theme, as are his. — Atlantic Monthly. 



Parkman's work is as fascinating as the best of Scott's novels. Once commenced, you cannot lay the 

 book down : you will read every line of it. — Boston Pilot. 



The Discovery of the Great West. 



Third Edition. Small Svo. Cloth, $2.50; half calf, #4.50. 



This volume embodies the exploits and adventures of the first European explorers of the valley of the 

 Mississippi ; the efforts of the French to secure the whole interior of the continent ; the attempt of La 

 Salle to find a westward passage to India ; his colony on the Illinois; his scheme of invading Mexico ; his 

 contest with the Jesuits, and his assas>ination by his own followers- The narrative is founded entirely on 

 contemporary documents, including many unpublished letters and journals of the chief explorers, which. 

 for the first time, place in a clear light one of the most interesting and striking portions of American 

 History. 



A subject which Mr. Parkman has made as much his own as Motley the Dutch Republic, or Macaulay 

 the English Revolution. He is thorough master of his material, which is much' scattered, and exists 

 largely in manuscript ; and'his imagination, his picturesque narrative style, and his admirable perception 

 of the true point of interest give to his historical works a wonderful charm and symmetry. It is to the 

 pages of Mr. Parkman that we must go for the American Indian. Cooper so bewitches our young fancies 

 with Uncas and the red heroes that it is very difficult to divest our estimate of the Indian of a false and 

 foolish glamour. Mr. Parkman, however, knows him by personal experience and long and thoughtful 

 study. — George IV. Cnrtis. 



The Old Regime in Canada under Louis XIV. 



Fourth Edition. Small Svo. Cloth, $2.50; half calf, $4.50. 



The author here presents the results of his researches into the early history of Canada under French 

 rule, including in his view the century bounded by 1653 and 1753. He has-had access to a mass of State 

 papers in the archives of France which have never before been drawn upon, and with the material thus 

 derived has wrought an historical fabric at once substantial and fascinating. The influences which con- 

 trolled the colony" in its beginning, and during its first century of life, — the Roman Catholic mission spirit, 

 and the monarchical ambition of Louis XIV., — are delineated in character and operation with remarkable 

 skill; and the extracts from the voluminous official correspondence maintained between France and Can- 

 ada lend a singular and delightful piquancy to the narrative. 



In this volume Mr. Parkman details intelligently and in a symmetrical and impressive narrative the 

 efforts of French Monarchy and the Church of Rome to grasp the Continent of North America. He has 

 chosen a peculiar but very effective method to this end- Instead of discoursing at length of state-craft and 

 .church-craft, and overwhelming the reader with dry documents and historical lore, he invites him to look 

 upon a series of scenes in the early life of Canada, in which that life is set forth with marvellous vividness 

 and realism. But in him the historian always controls the painter; and, amid the fascination of these 

 pictures, he never loses sight of the two forces the history of whose operation is the history of Canada, — 

 the spirit of monarchy, ancl the spirit of Roman Catholic missions. — The Literary World. 



The Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the Indian War after the Con- 

 quest of Canada. 



New Edition. 2 vols. Small Svo. Cloth, $5.00 ; half calf, $9.00. 



An admirable production. Combining thoroughness of research with a picturesque beauty of expres- 

 sion, it presents a fascinating narrative of one of the most pregnant episodes in American history. — West- 

 minster Review. 



Mr. Parkman's " Conspiracy of Pontiac" takes rank, among competent judges, as the most satisfac- 

 tory historical monograph that our literature has produced. — The Nation, New York. 



The Oregon Trail.— Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. 



Fourtli Edition, revised. Small Svo. Cloth, $2.50 ; half calf, $4-5°- 

 The sketches of which this volume is made up were originally published in 1S47. They comprise a 

 record of the summer adventures of two young men just out of college, and preserve the features of a state 

 of nature and society which has vanished for ever. No more graphic pictures of life on the frontier and in 

 the wilderness thirty years ago have ever been drawn. 



For the present, we must only praise this delightful book for its absolute good qualities, for the unfail- 

 ing interest of the narrative, for the vivid pictures of such Indian life as rarely reveals itself to white men, 

 for all its stories of the hunt and march and camp, for the calm observation brought to all these wide 

 scenes and primitive personalities. — Atlantic Monthly. 



