The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851Various
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The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
We have already briefly spoken of Dr. ANDREE'S work on America which is
now publishing at Brunswick, Germany, by the house of Westermann, a
branch of which is established in this city at the corner of Broadway
and Duane-streets. The book in question is to consist of three volumes
of some six hundred and fifty octavo pages each, devoted respectively to
North, Central, and South America. It is published in numbers of some
eighty pages each; of these numbers four are already issued, and we have
read them with great satisfaction. The broad and philosophical spirit,
the exhaustive learning, and the spirited and picturesque style of Dr.
Andree are beyond praise; among all the books on America which we have
met with this impresses us as unique, and if the remainder shall prove
equal to what is already published, we hope that some American publisher
may undertake a translation of the whole into English.
The work opens with an introduction of some forty odd pages, in which,
first, the physical characteristics of the new world are set forth with
great clearness and beauty: its mountains, rivers, lakes, climate,
vegetable and animal kingdoms; the origin of the aboriginal inhabitants,
their languages, races, manners, customs, and civilization; the
settlements of Europeans, the Spaniards, the Spanish and Portuguese
states, the Creoles, Mexico, Brazil, &c. Amalgamation of races, the
negroes, Slavery, influence of the Latin races, the Teutonic race, the
United States, their growth and destiny, are made the subjects of a
continuous discussion, remarkable alike for an air at least of breadth
and profundity, careful and comprehensive knowledge, and for concise and
often eloquent expression. The introduction is followed by chapters on
Iceland, Greenland, and the various expeditions to the polar regions of
the north, treating those topics both historically and ethnographically,
and with a clear presentation of every interesting and important fact.
Next follows a general survey of the continent north of the fiftieth,
degree of latitude, its rivers, lakes, forests, animals, men, and
commerce, including an account of the various Indian tribes, and the
trading companies dealing with them. The trading posts of the Hudson's
Bay Company, Lord Selkirk's colony on Red River, Labrador, Newfoundland,
the British Possessions on the West coast, Russian America, are
successively treated. Next the Indians in Canada and the United States
are considered at length, in respect of their history, traditions,
languages, monuments, customs, the influence of the whites upon them,
and their probable destiny. In this connection we notice that Dr. Andree
frequently cites Gallatin, Schoolcraft, Squier, and other American
writers. The remainder of the first volume will treat of the United
States, their political history and organization, their soil, climate,
people, &c., not failing to give whatever information may be useful to
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