A collection of prose and poetry, including Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Sights from a Steeple" and "The Haunted Quack" ; an essay on Quaker martyr Mary Dyer by Catharine Sedgwick; "The Adventurer," by John Neal; and poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lydia Sigourney, William J. Snelling, and Sarah Josepha Hale.
The volume includes 11 engravings, two based on paintings by Thomas Lawrence and two of paintings by Alvan Fisher. Thomas Cole's "Landscape Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans'" is reproduced here as "American Scenery," with a section from The Last of the Mohicans reprinted. Engravings also include two pieces of music.
A collection of prose and poetry, including Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Sights from a Steeple" and "The Haunted Quack" ; an essay on Quaker martyr Mary Dyer by Catharine Sedgwick; "The Adventurer," by John Neal; and poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lydia Sigourney, William J. Snelling, and Sarah Josepha Hale.
The volume includes 11 engravings, two based on paintings by Thomas Lawrence and two of paintings by Alvan Fisher. Thomas Cole's "Landscape Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans'" is reproduced here as "American Scenery," with a section from The Last of the Mohicans reprinted. Engravings also include two pieces of music.