y regarding as models the works of European travellers,
as well as by a very commendable spirit of modesty; for modest he
certainly is when speaking of himself, when we consider the temptations
to self-glorification which his adventures would have presented to any
of the English adventurers of the present day!

The book cannot fail to be extensively read, since it is not only
entertaining, but instructive. Its sketches of the _causes_ of the
continual civil wars in South America are not only explanatory, but may
serve as a lesson to us in this country to give ourselves heart and soul
to the Union, and to crush out treason and faction by every means in our
power. If the rebels and Copperheads triumph, we shall soon see the
United States reduced to the frightful anarchy of South America.

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THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY.

The readers of the CONTINENTAL are aware of the important
position is has assumed, of the influence which it exerts, and of the
brilliant array of political and literary talent of the highest order
which supports it. No publication of the kind has, in this country, so
successfully combined the energy and freedom of the daily newspaper with
the higher literary tone of the first-class monthly; and it is very
certain that no magazine has given wider range to its contributors, or
preserved itself so completely from the narrow influences of party or of
faction. In times like the present, such a journal is either a power in
the land or it is nothing. That the CONTINENTAL is not the
latter is abundantly evidenced _by what it has done_--by the reflection
of its counsels in many important public events, and in the character
and power of those who are its staunchest supporters.

Though but little more than a year has elapsed since the CONTINENTAL was
first established, it has during that time acquired a strength and a
political significance elevating it to a position far above that
previously occupied by any publication of the kind in America. In proof
of which assertion we call attention to the following facts:

1. Of its POLITICAL articles republished in pamphlet form, a
single one has had, thus far, a circulation of _one hundred and six
thousand_ copies.

2. From its LITERARY department, a single serial novel, "Among
the Pines," has, within a very few months, sold nearly _thirty-five
thousand_ copies. Two other series of its literary articles have also
been republ