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Show uu 448 THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL. horse at Westport. My rifle, which he had always been fond of using, as it was an excellent piece, much better than his own, is now in his hands, and perhaps at this moment its sharp voice is startling the echoes of the Rocky Mountains.. On the next morning we left town, and after a fortnight of railroads and steamboats we saw once more the familiar features of home. respect which he considered due to his bourgeois. If sincerity and honor, a boundless generosity of spirit, a delicate regard to the feelings of others, and a nice perception of what was due to them, are the essential characteristics of a gentleman, then Henry Chatillon deserves the title. He could not write his own name, and he had spent his life among savages. In him sprang up spontaneously those qualities which all the refinements of life and intercourse with the highest and best of the better part of mankind, fail to awaken in the brutish nature of some men. In spite of his bloody calling, Henry was always humane and merciful ; he was gentle as a woman, though braver than a lion. He acted aright from the free impulses of his large and generous nature. A certain species of selfishness is essential to the sternness of spirit which bears down opposition and subjects the will of others to its own. Henry's character was of an opposite stamp. His easy goodnature almost amounted to weakness ; yet while it unfitted him for any position of command, it secured the esteem and good-will of all those who were not jealous of his skill and reputation. THE END. G. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. THE LAST TEN YEARS OF AMERICAN HISTORY. In one volume, 12mo. Last Leaves of American History. WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CALIFORNIA. lly EMMA WILLARD. Louis 1Vapoleon Bonaparte, FIRST PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL SKETCHES, INCLUDING A VISIT TO THE PRINCE AT THE PRISON OF HAM. By HENRY WIKOFF, EsQ. With a Portrait. 12mo. Paper, 50 cts.; cloth, 63 cts. T h e F i r s t of t h e J( n i c k e r b o c k e r s ; A TALE OF 1673. By P. HAMILTON MYERS. Second edition. 1 vol. 12mo. Paper, 50 cts. ; cloth, 75 cts. "A story of marked power anu interest."~ Washi1lt[ton Union. "A most thrilling tale."-.lltbany pectator. fi "Decideilly the (;]everest and mot successf"u_l of the not very numerous attempts to .w?fk up or romantic fiction the rich store of material supplied by the earlter lustory of New-Ymk. -N. Y. ((n'/'; .t:~reeable story, well conducted and well tol_d.''- _Wasltint[ton Intelli.gencer. "A well-cond· cted and lively tale."-Denwcrat1.c Revzew. The Young Patroon; A T A L E 0 F N EW - Y 0 R K I N 1 6 9 0 . B P. HAMILTON MYERS, Author of "The First of the Knickerbockers.". '' It is y one of those very good tales and very well told, w 1u ·c 1 1 we are g1 a d to meet wtth •" - SO'uth. Lit. Gaz. Pictures and Painters; E S SAYS U P 0 N A R T ; THE OLD MASTERS AND MODERN PAINTERS. Cloth, 50 cents. ~ Industrial Exchanges an d S o cial Remedies. WITH A CONSIDERATION OF TAXATION. llY D. PARISH BARIIYDT. 12mo. cloth, 75 cts. 1 ,·ve and liberal view, all the "The crreat topics of political economy are t reLa ted ILll .a f com~ pre aJnetn!s are extended and app] 1. e d t O modern dend ucti.O ns of that sC.i ence ~r~ presen t e d in a Hie space, . . J·· b k- ·a cies The chapters on etlucatJOn, 100 an the circumstances of our own cond1tlon and exJoen : ages which we should g-ladly have m· g, the cot of protecti·O n, an d se.' f'- g· overnm ent ' coniktainm" l paisllsu st r,a te and power f u 1.1 Y et·ll'O" IC· e doc. - extracted becau e of their truth, and because they sr 0 ~ this journal and whtch, though liS trines that have for years bee_n advocated in the ?0 U~tsp~blic prosperity, are still the object o( great part practically estabhshed, to. the promotion assault and perversion. "-Jmtrnal of Commerce. 3 |
