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ple of culture, who will find instruction and profit in them."--_Phila. Press._ * * * Our publications are for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent post-paid on receipt of advertised price. ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston. SINNERS AND SAINTS. A Tour across the States and around them, with Three Months among the Mormons. By PHIL. ROBINSON, author of "Under the Sun." 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50 "Although he has won a reputation as a humorist, Mr. Robinson is one of the most faithful of descriptive writers, and his pictures of life in the United States, as seen through the eyes of the cosmopolitan Englishman, may be accepted as trustworthy and instructive. His humor is of the sort that never wearies, for it is never extravagant or forced." "Mr. Robinson had peculiar facilities for an inside view of Mormon life, and his impressions are altogether different from accepted statements. His book will amply repay perusal." "Mr. Robinson is the fortunate possessor of a rich and racy vein of humor, and the account he has given in the volume before us of his trip across the continent, and of his adventures in the territory of the Mormons, is entertaining in a very high degree. The larger part of the book is given up to a description of what the writer saw in Salt Lake City and the vicinity, and upon this subject he has much to say that will take most people by surprise. According to his story the Mormons have been very much maligned, and Mormonism, so far from being a pernicious and reprehensible institution, which ought, in the interest of the public and of morality, to be suppressed by the exercise of any force that may be needed to accomplish that purpose, is a praiseworthy and beneficent system. This differs widely from the prevailing idea, but Mr. Robinson is earnest and evidently sincere in his statements, and as a non-resident Anglo-Indian he certainly has no object to misrepresent the facts. His report is well worth a careful and dispassionate reading. Mr. Robinson's humor is of much the same order as that which makes the Mark Twain books so amusing, but it is wanting in that grave stolidity which distinguishes the American article, and is strongly flavored with the Dickens quality of fun."--_North American, Phila._ RED CLOUD, THE SOLITARY SIOUX. A Story of the Great Prairie. By LIEUT.-COL. BUTLER, author of "The Great Lone Land." With 24 full-page illustrations. One volume, uniform with "The Two Cabin Boys." Sq
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