"To define him is, in a way, to define the American people itself. For among writers of recent times, living or dead, there is hardly any one who, in my opinion, has come nearer deserving the epithet 'national.'"--Edwin Bjorkman.
These letters, regarded by the New York Evening Post as "the literary discovery of the year," tell a connected story of pioneer life, full of buoyancy and pluck and the spirit of adventure. One of the most humorous, touching, and lively documents in recent literature.
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Translated by Rev. William Prall. With an Introduction by William Roscoe Thayer
These Memoirs, now translated into English, represent the aristocratic attitude among the patriotic Italians, and give a personal and vivid account of the abuses of Austrian and clerical rule; of the outbreaks of 1848-50, their failure and cruel repression.
These papers all embody and eloquently exploit that view of the relation of mediæval ideals to modern life which has made the author the most brilliant exponent of Gothic architecture in America.
Readers of Mrs. Burr's able literary and psychological study of "The Autobiography" will be in a measure prepared for the wealth of material that she has brought together in her account of the religious confession throughout the ages.
Translated from the German, with an introduction by M. T. H. Sadler. Kandinsky gives a critical sketch of the growth of the abstract ideal in art, forecasts the future of the movement, and says in what way he considers Cubism to have failed in its object. The fairness and generosity of his argument, together with the interest of his own daring theories, will certainly attract the English as it has attracted the German public, who called for three editions of the book within a year of publication.
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