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4 A NEW EDITION. THE AUTHOR OF “THE PILOT’S” NEW STORY OF THE SEA. Now Ready, in Two Volumes, 12mo., HOMEWARD BOUND: OR, THE CHASE. . A STORY OF THE SBA. 4 BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ., Author of 4" The Pilot,” § The Red Rover,” “ The Water Witch,” &c. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 4 A most spirited and interesting narrative. Mr. Cooper has never been seen to more advantage.”—luterary Gazette. “This work is entitled to high praise.” — Spectator. “ Written with great spirit and good feeling.”— Times. “In every respect quite equal—in some decidedly superior—to any preceding story by the same author.”—Morning Post. ‘“‘ Never has Mr. Cooper’s pen been more successful than in the present story. In ‘ Homeward Bound,’ after so long an interval partially devoted to publications o a different description, he bursts upon us like a giant ‘ refreshed.’ " Globe. “The interest of this novel is so absorbing, and such is the skill with which every circumstance is described, that we are rivetted to the page with almost as earnest a feeling as if we participated in the exciting perils and adventures of the gallant Montauk and its passengers. "The management of the ship at sea, the disasters on the coast of Africa, the raft, and the wreck, and indeed every particle of the nautical panorama, is in the highest degree spirited and faithful. " Homeward Bound’ is indeed a remarkable work, and may be ranked amongst the best of Mr. Cooper’s tales.” —Atlas. “This book is really what it professes to be, " A Story of the Sea,’ and in many respects it is the finest novel of its class yet produced by the Smollett of America. The plot is simple ; and yet what diversity of incident—what startling situations— what singular characters—what change of scene does it not involve! In the adventures and perils of the Montauk, a sympathy is excited by the rare power of the novelist, as though the ship were a human being. Her flight through the vast waste of waters, her dangers by storm and wreck, and the strange circumstances that befel her on the wild and desolate coast of Africa, keep curiosity perpetually on the alert, and urge the reader onwards in the narrative with the same breathless haste as that by which the vessel herself was propelled before the wind.”—Naval and Military Gazette. ALSO, HOME AS FOUND; BEING A SEQUEL TO “ HOMEWARD BOUND.” BY MR. COOPER, In Two Volumes, 12mo.
