In the sciences and the fine arts we, of course, cannot set up our claim for eminence, but in a short period we may even boast of these things. With such a country, and so much to make one happy, how can any sensible American ever wish to abandon it? Let those who speak of disunion, who have sectional prejudices, or who are blindly led by party rule, make the tour of the Old World, and if I am not greatly mistaken they will return home with national ideas, national love, and national fidelity. FINIS. SIMMS' REVOLUTIONARY TALES. UNIFORM SERIES. DARLEY. New and entirely Revised Edition of WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS' Romances of the Revolution, with Illustrations by Darley. Each complete in one vol., 12mo, cloth; price $1.25. I. THE PARTISAN. II. MELLICHAMPE, III. KATHARINE WALTON. (In press.) V. WOODCRAFT. (In press.) "The field of Revolutionary Romance was a rich one, and Mr. Simms has worked it admirably."-Louisville Journal. "But few novelists of the age evince more power in the conception of a story, more artistic skill in its management, or more naturalness in the final denouement than Mr Simms."-Mobile Daily Advertiser. "Not only par excellence the literary man of the South, but next to no romance writer in America."-Albany Knickerbocker. "Simms is a popular writer, and his romances are highly creditable to American literature."--Boston Olive Branch. "These books are replete with daring and thrilling adventures, principally drawn from history."-Boston Christian Freeman. "We take pleasure in noticing another of the series which Redfield is presenting to the country of the brilliant productions of one of the very ablest of our American authors-of one indeed who, in his peculiar sphere, is inimitable. This volume is a continuation of The Partisan."--Philadelphia American Courier. ALSO UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE THE YEMASSEE, A Romance of South Carolina. By WM. GILMORE SIMMS. 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