The Partisan; A Romance of the Revolution Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: M PKESS" OPINIONS MR. SIMMS' WORKS. "Thoroughly American in the choice of his subIects, fertile In Invention, with descriptive powers, second only to Cooper, and, as a general rule, with a far superior Insight Into character, Blmms ranks as a novelist first among the foremost, and we ire glad to iltnl his great uierlt Is at length becoming very generally appreciated."? Boston Atttcnaum. "The Revolutionary tales of the 'Partisan' claes are well calculated to arouse and keep alive American national ardor, and should bo In the hands of the rising youth of the country."?Rochester American. "It is a creditable compliment to some American fictions that they yet live, and when one generation of readers has passed away, the merits of the works commend them to the attention of their successors, as Is the ease with the spirited Revolutionary romances of Vm. Gilmore Simms."?Philadelphia Sun. "Many years have elapsed since the first publication of the 'Partisan,' during which time it has been tried in the cradble of hot criticism, and fonnd to contain, If some alloy, yet mainly pure ore. It has now,been carefully revised?Its style chastened, nod Its crndities weeded out?aml a new generation will read it with deep Interest? Yankee Blade. ' Written by a gifted eon of Carolina, and first published near forty years ago, and la now tvpnbllshed after undergoing the revision of riper Indgment and matnrer taste. It portrays the character of the people of South Carolina In the embittered times of the Revolution, and sketches, with a good degree of fidelity, the scenes of the war as they were there enacted."?Worcester (Mass.) Palladium. " We think we see a growing recognition of the ctaltr.s of Simms to be received as one of the best and most accurate chroniclers of events In o...