f this expedition has become an
important portion of the history of the nation, and its details,
embracing an account of his own captivity and sufferings in Mexico, were
written by Mr. Kendall in one of the most spirited and graphic books of
military and wilderness adventure, vicissitude, and endurance, that has
been furnished in our times. The work was published in two volumes, by
the Harpers, in 1844. It has since passed through many editions, and for
the fidelity and felicity, the bravery and _bon hommie_, that mark all
its pages, it is likely to be one of the choicest chronicles that will
be quoted from our own in the new centuries.

After the publication of his narrative of the Santa Fe Expedition, Mr.
Kendall resumed his more immediate services in the _Picayane_--always,
it may be said without injustice to his associates, most attractive
under his personal supervision; and in the angry and war-tending
controversies with Mexico which filled the public mind in the succeeding
years, he was one of the calmest as well as wisest of our journalists.
When at length the conflict came on, he attended the victorious Taylor
as a member of his staff along the mountains and valleys which that
great commander marked with the names of immortal victories, and had
more than satisfaction for all griefs of his own in seeing the flag of
his country planted in every scene in which his country had been
insulted in his own person.

Upon the conclusion of the war, Mr. Kendall commenced the preparation of
the magnificent work which has lately been published in this city by the
Appletons, under the title of _The War between the United States and
Mexico, by George W. Kendall, illustrated by pictorial drawings by Carl
Nebel_. Mr. Nebel may be regarded as one of the best battle-painters
living. He accompanied Mr. Kendall during the war, and made his sketches
while on the several fields where he had witnessed the movements of the
contending armies; and in all the accessories of scenery, costume, and
general effect, he has unquestionably been as successful as the actors
in the drama admit him to have been in giving a vivid and just
impression of the distinguishing characteristics of each conflict. The
subjects of the plates are the Bombardment of Vera Cruz, the Battle of
Cerro Gordo, the Storming of Chepultepec, the Assault on Contreras, the
Battle of Cherubusco, the Attack on Molino del Rey, General Scott's
Entrance into Mexico, the Battle of