savage. To say that all this is narrated by the author in
the spirit of accurate history, would be far below the meed of praise that
is due. He has executed this part of the book in a style of animated and
lively description, and with that flowing and finished diction, which can
only be attained when the mind of a writer is perfectly familiar with the
events, and when, by the force of imagination, he becomes himself as it
were an actor instead of a spectator of the scenes which he narrates.

Additional interest is given to this spot, from the fact, which probably
is not generally known, except to the professed historian, that the
distinguished patriot TIMOTHY PICKERING took up his abode in the valley of
Wyoming, attracted no doubt by its unrivalled beauties, to which he was
first introduced during a military campaign, but which he afterward
contemplated, on the return of peace, with an eye capable of being charmed
by the picturesque in nature. The concluding chapter of the book is
devoted mainly to a spirited account of the abduction of that gentleman,
and his confinement in the wilderness by a gang of ruffians, who, after
trying in vain to bend his soldier-like mind to a compliance with their
violent designs, gave him an ungracious release, and allowed him to return
to his family. Among the papers in the appendix, now first introduced to
the public, will be found a deed of purchase, made from the Indians ninety
years ago, by the Connecticut Land Company, containing the names of some
six hundred of the most wealthy and distinguished people of that State. It
is important as a means of showing the valuation of land at that period,
and a proof that it was acquired by honest purchase. This edition has been
enlarged to the amount of more than one hundred pages of letter-press; an
addition found necessary by the discovery of increased materials by the
author since the publication of the first edition.

In concluding this brief notice of a work written with decided talent, and
designed to fill an important niche in the early history of this country,
we are bound to thank the author, and to express the hope that he will be
able to finish the historical design which he has sketched, pertaining to
that interesting race, of whom it may be truly said, that 'the hour of
their destiny has already struck.' This volume shows us, that in our own
country may be found topics for literary effort, worthy of employing the
gifted pens of Ameri