A VALUABLE WORK. 
A NEW AND ELEGANT LIBRARY EDITION OF 
GEN, NAPIER’S HISTORY 
OF THE 
“PENINSULAR WAR. 
THE HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA. 
By Maj.-Gen. Sir W. F. P. Naprer, from the author’s last 
revised edition. With 55 maps and plans of battles, five 
Portraits on Steel, and a complete index. Handsomely 
printed on laid tinted paper ,uniform with the Riverside 
Press Editions), in five volumes. Small 8vo 
“We believe the Literature of War has not received 4 more valuable augmenta 
tion this century than Colonel Napier’s justly celebrated work. Though a gallant 
combatant in the field, he is an impartial historian ; he exposes the errors com- 
mitted on cach side, refutes many tales of French atrocity and rapine, and does not 
conceal the revolting scenes of drunkenness, pillage, ravishment, and wanton 
slaughter, which ta uished the lustre of the British arms in those memorable 
campaigns. We think no civilian chronicler of the events of this desperate con- 
teat has been su just to the adversary of his nation as has this stern warrior.”"— 
Tribune. 
“ Napier’s His‘ory, in addition to its superior literary merits and trutaful fideli- 
ty, presents slrong ciaims upon the attention of all American citizens; because 
the author is a large-souled philanthropist, and an inflexible enemy to its ecclesi- 
astical tyranny and secular despots; while his pictures of Spain, and his portrait 
of the rulers in tbat degraded and wretched country, form a virtual sanction of 
our Republican institutions, far more powerful than any direct eulogy."— Post 
“The excellency of Napier’s History results from the writer's happy talent for 
hnpetuous, straight-forward, soul-stirring narrative and picturing forth of charac- 
tors, The military mancuvre, march, and fiery onset, the whole whiriwind viciss:- 
tudes of the desperate fight, he describes with dramatic force."—AMerchunr* 
Magazine. 
W. J. WIDDLETON, 
(Sucozssoz To REDFIELD,) 
PUBLISHER, 17 MERCER STREET, New York 
