Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian CollectionCatlin, George
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Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2): being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection
Catlin, George
England -- Description and travel; France -- Description and travel; Indians of North America
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TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. _Two Notices, Twenty-two pages._
"This is altogether an _unique_ work. It may be considered as a
_Catalogue Raisonnée_ of the numerous objects of art and curiosity
which Mr. Catlin has collected in the course of his wanderings,
and arranged in his Indian Gallery. The narrative of Mr. Catlin's
personal adventures during the wandering years in which he was thus
engaged, forms a work as unique in literature, as his collection of
original portraits and curiosities is rare in art.
"Many curious traits of character and pictures of manners are
exhibited in these large and closely-printed volumes, which will
remain an interesting record of the Homeric age and race of North
America, when, save a few wild traditions and scattered relics, and
a few of the musical and sonorous Indian names of lakes, rivers, and
hunting grounds, every other trace of the red man will have perished
on that vast continent."
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LITERARY GAZETTE, _London_. _Three Notices, Twenty-five Columns._
"_Catlin's Book on the North American Indians._--An _unique_ work!
A work of extraordinary interest and value. Mr. Catlin is _the_
Historian of the Red Races of mankind; of a past world, or at least
of a world fast passing away, and leaving hardly a trace or wreck
behind. We need not recommend it to the world, for it recommends
itself, beyond our praise."
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ATHENÆUM, _London_. _Four Notices, Thirty-one Columns._
"The public have fully confirmed the opinion we formerly pronounced
on Catlin's Indian gallery, as the most interesting exhibition which,
in our recollection, had been opened in London. The production of the
_work_ will, therefore, be most acceptable to those who have seen the
exhibition, as serving to refresh their memories; to those who have
not, as helping to explain that of which they have heard so much; to
all as a pleasant narrative of adventure, and a circumstantial and
detailed history of the manners and customs of an interesting people,
whose fate is sealed, whose days are numbered, whose extinction is
certain. The Americans should make much of Mr. Catlin for the sake
of by-gone days, which his books, portraits, and collections will
present to their grandchildren."
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ART UNION, _London_.
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