ilities and morals."--_Eclectic Magazine_.

"An interesting plot, dramatic incidents, characters well conceived
and executed, picturesque sketches of American scenery, and a
satisfactory _denouement_, are the elements of success which this new
novel invites."--_Ballou's Pictorial_.

"The locale of the story is at Norwich, Ct., the time, a generation
ago, and it embraces a wide range of characters, and brings into
discussion a variety of subjects. There is no feature of the book more
worthy of commendation than the Indian; this is worked up with great
fidelity to the character, passions and legendary history of the
aborigines, and exhibits a rare acquaintance with their characteristics.
The surprises of the story to the reader are most felicitously arranged,
and the conversations introduced are keenly bright."--_Springfield
Republican_.

"The author of this work has not favored the public with his name--and
why, we are at a loss to know, for it is one whose authorship no one
need be ashamed to acknowledge. A train of incidents, now pathetic,
now humorous, and now marvelous, is woven together with an ingenuity
not less happy than remarkable. Any reader, so intense will become his
interest, who shall peruse the first chapter, will find it difficult
to lay the book aside before all its contents shall have been
devoured. And more, and better, no one can read it without becoming
wiser and better--it abounds with wholesome lessons."--_Examiner_.

"No clue is given to the author of this story, but it is marked on
every page by evidence of a practised pen, of great dramatic power, of
experienced judgment of character, and of rare powers of
description."--_St. Louis Republican_.

"Something as bright and cheery as the blue skies and sparkling waters
of the New-England land selected for the scene of narrative; as quaint
and hearty as the early settlers of the northeastern States, whence it
draws its sketches of character, and as wild and picturesque in places
as the Indian legends of that 'long time ago' it so cheerfully
describes.

"Savage life and scenes of the forest are interwoven like threads of
purple and crimson with the pleasant homespun of colonial story; and,
ere the reader has ceased to smile over the antics, adventures and
sports of the odd specimens of early Yankee character that fill the
foreground, he is charmed into silence by the poetic pomp of Indian
tradition and the fiery display of Indian loves and hatr