Number One. Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764. 66 N HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the EXPEDITION against the OHIO INDIANS, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of HENRY BOUQUET, Esq., Colonel of Foot, and now Brigadier General in America, Including his TRANSACTIONS with the INDIANS, RELATIVE to the DELIVERY of their PRISONERS, and the PRELIMINARIES of PEACE, with an INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT of the Preceding CAMPAIGN, and BATTLE of BUSHYRUN. To which are annexed MILITARY PAPERS containing REFLECTIONS on the WAR with the SAVAGES; a METHOD of forming FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS; some ACCOUNT of the INDIAN COUNTRY; with a LIST of NATIONS, FIGHTING MEN, TOWNS, DISTANCES, and different ROUTES. Published from authentic Documents by a Lover of his Country" (DR. WILLIAM SMITH, Provost of the College of Philadel phia). With a Preface by FRANCIS PARKMAN, author of "Conspiracy of Pontiac," etc., and a translation of DUMAS' Biographical Sketch of GENERAL BOUQUET. The MAP and PLATES are finely reproduced by the PhotoLithographic Process. One volume, 8vo., pp. xxiii, 162, finely printed on tinted paper, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $3.00. A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $5.00, [From the Round Table.] "A better initial volume to the Ohio Valley Historical Series could not be desired than this. Everything is in its favor-the beauty of the volume itself, an invariable characteristic of whatever leaves its publisher's press; the rarity of the work reprinted, the importance in the history of our anti-revolutionary colonizations of the events which occasioned the expedition; and, by no means the least, the brief explanatory preface added by Mr. Francis Parkman. * So that, while the antiquarian or historian will get most out of the work, the average reader will find in it no small pleasure along with the side light it throws upon the events of a period of which popular ideas are vague and undefined." [From the Cincinnati Gazette.] * * "It is, in short, a worthy beginning to an enterprise which must commend itself to all scholars and literary men, and which reflects credit upon Cincinnati, as well as upon the enterprise and tact of the publishers." [From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.] "This is the first of the reprints of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, now in course of publication by Messrs. Clarke & Co., and is presented to us in a shape and style befitting the rarity of the volume, and its intrinsic value as an authentic and reliable narrative of one of the earliest British military expeditions into the territory North-West of the Ohio River.' * * * The volume is elegantly printed on tinted paper, has a good index, and is an honor to the enterprising publishers." [From the American Literary Gazette and Publisher's Circular.] "This is the first volume of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, just commenced by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. We have heretofore spoken of the plan of the projected series. It will undoubtedly form a valuable material for history. We can not too highly commend the admirable manner in which the publishers have produced the work. The paper and typography are unexceptionable. The original maps and plans are most successfully reproduced according to the Osborn Process,' by the American Photo-Lithographic Company, and the entire manufacture reflects credit on the skill and taste of Messrs. Clarke & Co." [From the Atlantic Monthly.] "The whole narrative is most entertaining for the interest of the subject, and for the quaintness of that highly literary style of the last century in which it is written. * * * * * * "Its quaintness every one must relish, and none can help noticing the clearness and solidity of the narration. * It is an enterprise to which we heartily wish success, both for the valuable matter it will preserve for the use of the student and the pleasure it will afford the general reader." Number Two: Walker's History of Athens County, Ohio. ISTORY OF ATHENS COUNTY, OHIO, and H incidentally of the OHIO LAND COMPANY and the FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE STATE at MARIETTA, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the EARLY SETTLERS, NARRATIVES OF PIONEER ADVENTURes, etc. By CHARLES M. WALKER. Illustrated with an original Map, showing the lands purchased by the Ohio Company, the Donation Tract, and Athens County, Past and Present, with fine Steel Portraits of Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sr., Bishop Ames, Judges Ephraim Cutler and Isaac Barker, and General John Brown. One volume, 8vo., pp. viii, 600, finely printed on tinted paper, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $6.00. A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Portraits on India paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. 2 vols. Impl. 8vo. Price, $12.00. [From the Historical Magazine.] "We have never found a more complete local history, nor one in which the author has more successfully labored to present the annals, the statistics, and the local biographies of a community, with fidelity and elaborate minuteness; and as a specimen of really elegant typography, it is worthy of all praise." [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] "It is a work so thorough, so complete, so carefully prepared, that it will remain for many years the history of the territory embraced within the early limits of the county. The typography is superb, and the portraits are executed in the best style of steel line engraving." [From the New York Tribune.] "The publication of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, of which this elegant work forms the second volume, is an enterprise for which men of letters are under deep obligation to the good sense and good taste of the publishers. ** **The present volume, though modest in its pretensions, claiming little more than a local interest, is far more valuable in its contents than its title or its unpretending preface might lead one to suppose. It embraces a history of the great Ohio Land Company and the first settlement of the State at Marietta, with biographical sketches of the pioneers of that part of Ohio, and a map which possesses considerable historical interest. Quite apart from its intrinsic value, the work also deserves to be prized as a dainty specimen of handiwork, rarely surpassed by the best New York and Boston booksellers, to say nothing of those of the West. The type is sumptuous, the paper heavy, the binding neat and strong, and the general typographical arrangement extremely tasteful." [From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.] "After years of patient and intelligent industry, Mr. Walker has succeeded in gathering together and presenting to us, in a very condensed form, the history of the county of Athens from its first feeble beginning, with sketches and statistics relating to the bloody Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the late civil war. It is also full of statistics relating to the several towns, such as the names of the officers, county and municipal; a history of its churches, schools, libraries, newspapers; with a description of its agricultural products, and of its mineral, manufacturing, and railway resources. All this must make a volume of surpassing interest and value to the inhabitants of the county and to the people of the State generally. "Besides the above, Mr. Walker gives us his biographical sketches of the leading men connected with the settlement and history of the county, and this feature of the work gives it a peculiar interest for us; for the larger number of these were natives of New England, and many of them men of high character and standing here. In fact, the whole enterprise, begun and carried on by the Ohio Land Company, was the work of some of the leading spirits of New England, who had been active participators in the Revolutionary war. We know not where else so much information can be obtained relating to the origin and history of this company. The men engaged in it, and the emigrants they led to the North-West Territory, gave to the population of Ohio much of the character of its present population and many of the elements of their extraordinary prosperity. "The volume is beautifully printed, and is in all respects one of the handsomest and most complete local histories we have ever seen." [From the Cincinnati Chronicle.] "The volume is one of the most admirable local histories we have ever seen. * * * Mr. Walker has done his work well and thoroughly. He has exhibited excellent taste and judgment, and his style is free from the objectionable features which too often mar and render comparatively valueless histories of this class." [From the Cleveland Leader.] "A book full of interest to every citizen of Athens county, and incidentally to every inhabitant of Ohio, as a record of the first settlement of the State. * *** Mr. Walker seems to have enjoyed unrestricted facilities for the collection of data, and has worked up his subject with evident care and judgment. The result is, perhaps, the best county history ever written in the State." Number Three. Clark's Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-9. COL OL. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK'S SKETCHES of his CAMPAIGN IN THE ILLINOIS IN 1778-9, with an Introduction by Hon. HENRY PIRTLE, of Louisville, Ky., and an Appendix containing the Public and Private Instructions to Col. Clark and Maj. Bowman's Journal of the Taking of Post St. Vincents. One volume, 8vo., pp. viii, 119, finely printed on tinted paper, with a Portrait of General Clark, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $2.00. A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Portrait on India paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $4.00. [From the Atlantic Monthly.] "The publishers of the Ohio Valley Historical Series here follow the narrative of Colonel Bouquet's Expedition (already noticed in these pages) with another volume possessing the same curious interest for the student of history, and the same fascination for the lover of exquisitely printed books; for the series, so far, is luxurious in paper and binding, and in typographical execution is surpassed by few productions of the American press. "Colonel Clark's campaign was a very brief one, and in fighting not particularly arduous, as would appear from his own showing; but it was full of daring and heroic endurance; it resulted immediately in the reduction of the British military posts between the Ohio and the Mississippi, thus giving tranquility to all the frontier settlements, and it finally secured to us all this vast territory. *** * "A little of the romance which belongs to all French colonial history hangs about Colonel Clark's unconscious page, and his sketch affords here and there a glimpse of the life of the habitans in the old seventeenth-century settlements of the French at Kaskaskias, Cahokia, and St. Vincents; but for the most part it is a plain and summary account of the military operations, and depends for its chief interest upon the view it affords of the character of as brave and shrewd a soldier and as bad a speller as ever lived. Some of his strokes of orthography are unrivaled by the studied grotesqueness of Artemus Ward or Mr. Yellowplush; he declares with perfect good faith that on a certain occasion he was very much "adjutated ;" and it is quite indifferent to him whether he write privilidge, happiniss, comeing, attacted, adjutation, sucksess, leathergy, intiligence, silicit, acoutri |