THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN.
On Sunday evening, Ben, in company with his sister, her husband, and
Charles, attended a sacred concert in Steinway Hall. As he stepped
within the vestibule, he saw two street boys outside, whom he knew well.
Their attire was very similar to that which he had himself worn until
the day before. They looked at Ben, but never thought of identifying him
with the baggage-smasher with whom they had often bunked together.
"See what it is," thought Ben, "to be well dressed and have fashionable
friends."
As he sat in a reserved seat but a little distance from the platform,
surrounded by well-dressed people, he was sometimes tempted to doubt
whether he was the same boy who a few days before was wandering about
the streets, a friendless outcast. The change was so complete and
wonderful that he seemed to himself a new boy. But he enjoyed the
change. It seemed a good deal pleasanter resting in the luxurious
bedchamber, which he shared with Charles at his sister's house, than the
chance accommodations to which he had been accustomed.
On Monday he started for Philadelphia, on his journey home.
We will precede him.
Mrs. Brandon sat in an arm-chair before the fire, knitting. She was not
old, but care and sorrow had threaded her dark hair with silver, and on
her brow there were traces of a sorrow patiently borne, but none the
less deeply felt. She had never recovered from the loss of her son. Her
daughter Mary had inherited something of her father's self-contained,
undemonstrative manner; but Ben had been impulsive and affectionate, and
had always been very near his mother's heart. To feel that he had passed
from her sight was a great sorrow; but it was a greater still not to
know where he was. He might be suffering pain or privation; he might
have fallen into bad and vicious habits for aught she knew. It would
have been a relief, though a sad one, to know that he was dead. But
nothing whatever had been heard of him since the letter of which the
reader is already aware.
Since Mary's marriage Mrs. Brandon had been very much alone. Her husband
was so taciturn and reserved that he was not much company for her; so
she was left very much to her own thoughts, and these dwelt often upon
Ben, though six years had elapsed since he left home.
"If I could see him once more," she often said to herself, "I could die
in peace."
So Mrs. Brandon was busily thinking of Ben on that Monday afternoon, as
she sat knitting before the fire; little thinking that God had heard her
prayer, and that the son whom she so longed to see was close at hand. He
was even then coming up the gravelled walk that led to the house.
It may be imagined that Ben's heart beat with unwonted excitement, as
the scenes of his early boyhood once more appeared before him. A
thousand boyish memories returned to him, as he trod the familiar
street. He met persons whom he knew, but they showed no recognition of
him. Six years had wrought too great a change in him.
He rang the bell.
The summons was answered by the servant, the only one employed in Mrs.
Brandon's modest establishment.
"Is Mrs. Brandon at home?" asked Ben.
"Yes," answered the girl. "Will you walk in?"
Ben stepped into the entry, and the girl opened the door of the room in
which Mrs. Brandon was seated.
Mrs. Brandon looked up.
She saw standing at the door a well-grown lad of sixteen, with a face
browned by long exposure to the sun and air. It was six years since she
had seen Ben; but in spite of the changes which time may have wrought, a
mother's heart is not easily deceived. A wild hope sprang up in her
heart. She tried to rise from her chair, but her excite was so great
that her limbs refused their office.
"Mother!" exclaimed Ben, and, hurrying forward he threw his arms around
his mother's neck.
"God be thanked!" she exclaimed, with heartfelt gratitude. "I have
missed you so much, Ben."
Ben's heart reproached him as he saw the traces of sorrow upon his
mother's face, and felt that he had been the cause.
"Forgive me, mother!" he said.
"It is all forgotten now. I am so happy!" she answered, her eyes filled
with joyful tears.
They sat down together, and Ben began to tell his story. In the midst of
it his father entered. He stopped short when he saw Ben sitting beside
his mother.
"It is Ben come back," said his mother, joyfully.
Mr. Brandon did not fall on his son's neck and kiss him. That was not
his way. He held out his hand, and said, "Benjamin, I am very glad to
see you."
In the evening they talked together over the new plans which Ben's
return suggested.
"You must stay with us, Ben," said his mother. "I cannot part with you
now."
"I am getting old, Benjamin," said his father. "I need help in my
business. You must stay and help me, and by and by you shall have the
whole charge of it."
"I am afraid I don't know enough," said Ben. "I haven't studied any
since I left home. I don't know as much as I did when I was ten."
"You shall study at home for a year," said his father. "The teacher of
the academy shall give you private lessons. You can learn a great deal
in a year if you set about it."
To this arrangement Ben acceded. He is now studying at home, and his
abilities being excellent, and his ambition excited, is making
remarkable progress. Next year he will assist his father. Mr. Brandon
seems to have changed greatly. He is no longer stern and hard, but
gentle and forbearing, and is evidently proud of Ben, who would run a
chance of being spoiled by over-indulgence, if his hard discipline as a
street boy had not given him a manliness and self-reliance above his
years. He is gradually laying aside the injurious habits which he
acquired in his street life, and I confidently hope for him a worthy and
useful manhood.
From time to time Ben visits New York, and renews his intimacy with his
Cousin Charles, who returns his warm affection. Charles, in turn,
spends the summer at Cedarville, where they are inseparable.
So we bid farewell to Ben, the Luggage Boy, hoping that he may be able
to repay his mother in part for the sorrow which his long absence
occasioned her, and that she may live long to enjoy his society. To my
young readers, who have received my stories of street life with so much
indulgence, I bid a brief farewell, hoping to present them ere long the
sixth volume of the Ragged Dick Series, under the title of
RUFUS AND ROSE;
Or,
THE FORTUNES OF ROUGH AND READY.
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=Across Texas.= =Adventures in Canada; or, Life in the Woods.= By John
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=Alison's Adventures.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=American Family Robinson, The; or, The Adventures
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=Bear Hunters of the Rocky Mountains, The.= By Anne
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=Ben's Nugget; or, A Boy's Search for a Fortune.= By
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=Bob Burton; or, the Young Ranchman of the Missouri.=
By Horatio Alger, Jr.
=Bonnie Prince Charlie; A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden.=
By G. A. Henty.
=Brave Billy.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Brave Tom; or, The Battle that Won.= By Edward S.
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=By Right of Conquest; or, With Cortez in Mexico.= By
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=Cabin in the Clearing, The.= A Tale of the Frontier.
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=Cruise of the Firefly.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Dear Days, A Story of Washington School Life.= By
Ada Mickle.
=Diccon the Bold.= A Story of the Days of Columbus.
By John Russell Coryell.
=Do and Dare; or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune.= By
Horatio Alger, Jr.
=Dog Crusoe, The.= A Tale of the Western Prairies. By
R. M. Ballantyne.
=Dog of Cotopaxi, The.= By Hezekiah Butterworth.
=Doris and Theodora.= By Margaret Vandegrift.
=Dr. Gilbert's Daughters.= By Margaret H. Matthews.
=Dragon and the Raven, The; or, The Days of King
Alfred.= By G. A. Henty.
=Elam Storm, the Wolfer; or, The Lost Nugget.= By
Harry Castlemon.
=Elinor Belden; or, The Step Brothers.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Esther's Fortune.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Floating Treasure.= By Harry Castlemon.
=Four Little Indians.= By Ella Mary Coates.
=Family Dilemma.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands, The.= By R. M.
Ballantyne.
=For Honor's Sake.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Four Boys; or, The Story of the Forest Fire.= By Edward
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=Fox Hunting, As Recorded by "Raed."= By C. A.
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=Freaks on the Fells.= By R. M. Ballantyne.
=Gascoyne, the Sandalwood Trader.= By R. M. Ballantyne.
=Girl's Ordeal, A.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Gorilla Hunters, The.= By R. M. Ballantyne.
=Great Cattle Trail, The.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Hunt on Snow Shoes, A.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Hartwell Farm, The.= By Elizabeth B. Comins.
=Hector's Inheritance; or, The Boys of Smith Institute.=
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=Helen Glenn; or, My Mother's Enemy.= By Lucy C.
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=Helping Himself; or, Grant Thornton's Ambition.= By
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=Honest Ned.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Haunted Mine, The.= By Harry Castlemon.
=In Freedom's Cause.= A Story of Wallace and Bruce.
By G. A. Henty.
=In the Reign of Terror; The Adventures of a Westminster
Boy.= By G. A. Henty.
=Jack Midwood; or, Bread Cast Upon the Waters.= By
Edward S. Ellis.
=Joe Wayring at Home; or, The Adventures of a Fly
Rod.= By Harry Castlemon.
=Kangaroo Hunters, The; or, Adventures in the Bush.=
By Anne Bowman.
=King's Rubies, The.= By Adelaide Fulaer Bell.
=Lady Green Satin.= By Baroness Deschesnez.
=Left on Labrador; or, The Cruise of the Yacht "Curlew."=
By C. A. Stephens.
=Lena Wingo, the Mohawk.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Lenny, the Orphan.= By Margaret Hosmer.
=Lion of the North, The. A Tale of the Times of Gustavus
Adolphus.= By G. A. Henty.
=Luke Walton; or, The Chicago Newsboy.= By Horatio
Alger, Jr.
=Lynx Hunting.= By C. A. Stephens.
=Limber Lew, the Circus King.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Marion Berkley.= By Elizabeth B. Comins.
=Missing Pocket-Book, The.= By Harry Castlemon.
=Mysterious Andes, The.= By Hezekiah Butterworth.
=Northern Lights.= Stories from Swedish and Finnish
Authors.
=Off to the Geysers; or, The Young Yachters in Iceland.=
By C. A. Stephens.
=On the Amazon; or, The Cruise of the "Rambler."= By
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=Orange and Green; A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick.=
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=Path in the Ravine, The.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Plucky Dick; or, Sowing and Reaping.= By Edward S.
Ellis.
=Queen's Body Guard, The.= By Margaret Vandegrift.
=Question of Honor.= By Lynde Palmer.
=Righting the Wrong.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=River Fugitives, The.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Romain Kalbris.= His Adventures by Sea and Shore.
Translated from the French of Hector Malot.
=Rose Raymond's Wards.= By Margaret Vandegrift.
=Ruth Endicott's Way.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Shifting Winds; A Story of the Sea.= By R. M. Ballantyne.
=Snagged and Sunk; or, The Adventures of a Canvas
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=Squire's Daughter, The.= By Lucy C. Lillie.
=Steel Horse, The; or, The Rambles of a Bicycle.= By
Harry Castlemon.
=Store Boy, The; or, The Fortunes of Ben Barclay.= By
Horatio Alger, Jr.
=Storm Mountain.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Struggling Upward; or, Luke Larkin's Luck.= By Horatio
Alger, Jr.
=Tam; or, Holding the Fort.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=Through Forest and Fire.= By Edward S. Ellis.
=True to the Old Flag; A Tale of the American War of
Independence.= By G. A. Henty.
=Two Bequests, The; or, Heavenward Led.= By Jane R.
Sommers.
=Two Ways of Becoming a Hunter.= By Harry Castlemon.
=Under Drake's Flag. A Tale of the Spanish Main.= By
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=With Clive in India; or, The Beginning of an Empire.=
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=With Wolfe in Canada; or, The Winning of a Continent.=
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=Young Adventurer, The; Tom's Trip Across the Plains.=
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=Young Circus Rider, The.= By Horatio Alger, Jr.
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=Young Explorer, The; or, Among the Sierras.= By Horatio
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THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.'S POPULAR JUVENILES.
HARRY CASTLEMON.
HOW I CAME TO WRITE MY FIRST BOOK.
When I was sixteen years old I belonged to a composition class. It was
our custom to go on the recitation seat every day with clean slates, and
we were allowed ten minutes to write seventy words on any subject the
teacher thought suited to our capacity. One day he gave out "What a Man
Would See if He Went to Greenland." My heart was in the matter, and
before the ten minutes were up I had one side of my slate filled. The
teacher listened to the reading of our compositions, and when they were
all over he simply said: "Some of you will make your living by writing
one of these days." That gave me something to ponder upon. I did not say
so out loud, but I knew that my composition was as good as the best of
them. By the way, there was another thing that came in my way just then.
I was reading at that time one of Mayne Reid's works which I had drawn
from the library, and I pondered upon it as much as I did upon what the
teacher said to me. In introducing Swartboy to his readers he made use
of this expression: "No visible change was observable in Swartboy's
countenance." Now, it occurred to me that if a man of his education
could make such a blunder as that and still write a book, I ought to be
able to do it, too. I went home that very day and began a story, "The
Old Guide's Narrative," which was sent to the _New York Weekly_, and
came back, respectfully declined. It was written on both sides of the
sheets but I didn't know that this was against the rules. Nothing
abashed, I began another, and receiving some instruction, from a friend
of mine who was a clerk in a book store, I wrote it on only one side of
the paper. But mind you, he didn't know what I was doing. Nobody knew
it; but one day, after a hard Saturday's work--the other boys had been
out skating on the brick-pond--I shyly broached the subject to my
mother. I felt the need of some sympathy. She listened in amazement, and
then said: "Why, do you think you could write a book like that?" That
settled the matter, and from that day no one knew what I was up to until
I sent the first four volumes of Gunboat Series to my father. Was it
work? Well, yes; it was hard work, but each week I had the satisfaction
of seeing the manuscript grow until the "Young Naturalist" was all
complete.
--_Harry Castlemon in the Writer._
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Frank the Young Naturalist.
Frank on a Gunboat.
Frank in the Woods.
Frank before Vicksburg.
Frank on the Lower Mississippi.
Frank on the Prairie.
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Frank Among the Rancheros.
Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho.
Frank in the Mountains.
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The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle.
The Sportsman's Club Afloat.
The Sportsman's Club.
Among the Trappers.
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Frank in the Forecastle.
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George in Camp.
George at the Fort.
George at the Wheel.
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Don Gordon's Shooting Box.
The Young Wild Fowlers.
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Sailor Jack the Trader.
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The Mystery of Lost River Cañon.
The Young Game Warden.
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The enormous sales of the books of Horatio Alger, Jr., show the
greatness of his popularity among the boys, and prove that he is one of
their most favored writers. I am told that more than half a million
copies altogether have been sold, and that all the large circulating
libraries in the country have several complete sets, of which only two
or three volumes are ever on the shelves at one time. If this is true,
what thousands and thousands of boys have read and are reading Mr.
Alger's books! His peculiar style of stories, often imitated but never
equaled, have taken a hold upon the young people, and, despite their
similarity, are eagerly read as soon as they appear.
Mr. Alger became famous with the publication of that undying book,
"Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York." It was his first book for
young people, and its success was so great that he immediately devoted
himself to that kind of writing. It was a new and fertile field for a
writer then, and Mr. Alger's treatment of it at once caught the fancy of
the boys. "Ragged Dick" first appeared in 1868, and ever since then it
has been selling steadily, until now it is estimated that about 200,000
copies of the series have been sold.
--"Pleasant Hours for Boys and Girls."
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A writer for boys should have an abundant sympathy with them. He should
be able to enter into their plans, hopes, and aspirations. He should
learn to look upon life as they do. Boys object to be written down to. A
boy's heart opens to the man or writer who understands him.
--From "Writing Stories for Boys," by Horatio Alger, Jr.
RAGGED DICK SERIES.
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Fame and Fortune.
Mark the Match Boy.
Rough and Ready.
Ben the Luggage Boy.
Rufus and Rose.
TATTERED TOM SERIES--First Series.
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Tattered Tom.
Paul the Peddler.
Phil the Fiddler.
Slow and Sure.
TATTERED TOM SERIES--Second Series.
4 vols. $4.00
Julius.
The Young Outlaw.
Sam's Chance.
The Telegraph Boy.
CAMPAIGN SERIES.
3 vols. =By Horatio Alger, Jr.= $3.00
Frank's Campaign.
Charlie Codman's Cruise.
Paul Prescott's Charge.
LUCK AND PLUCK SERIES--First Series.
4 vols. =By Horatio Alger, Jr.= $4.00
Luck and Pluck.
Sink or Swim.
Strong and Steady.
Strive and Succeed.
LUCK AND PLUCK SERIES--Second Series.
4 vols. $4.00
Try and Trust.
Bound to Rise.
Risen from the Ranks.
Herbert Carter's Legacy.
BRAVE AND BOLD SERIES.
4 vols. =By Horatio Alger, Jr.= $4.00
Brave and Bold.
Jack's Ward.
Shifting for Himself.
Wait and Hope.
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Only an Irish Boy.
Victor Vane, or the Young Secretary.
Adrift in the City.
FRANK AND FEARLESS SERIES.
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Frank Hunter's Peril.
The Young Salesman.
Frank and Fearless.
GOOD FORTUNE LIBRARY.
3 vols. =By Horatio Alger, Jr.= $3.00
Walter Sherwood's Probation.
The Young Bank Messenger.
A Boy's Fortune.
HOW TO RISE LIBRARY.
3 vols. =By Horatio Alger, Jr.= $3.00
Jed, the Poorhouse Boy.
Lester's Luck.
Rupert's Ambition.
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=J. T. TROWBRIDGE.=
Neither as a writer does he stand apart from the great currents of life
and select some exceptional phase or odd combination of circumstances.
He stands on the common level and appeals to the universal heart, and
all that he suggests or achieves is on the plane and in the line of
march of the great body of humanity.
The Jack Hazard series of stories, published in the late _Our Young
Folks_, and continued in the first volume of _St. Nicholas_, under the
title of "Fast Friends," is no doubt destined to hold a high place in
this class of literature. The delight of the boys in them (and of their
seniors, too) is well founded. They go to the right spot every time.
Trowbridge knows the heart of a boy like a book, and the heart of a man,
too, and he has laid them both open in these books in a most successful
manner. Apart from the qualities that render the series so attractive to
all young readers, they have great value on account of their
portraitures of American country life and character. The drawing is
wonderfully accurate, and as spirited as it is true. The constable,
Sellick, is an original character, and as minor figures where will we
find anything better than Miss Wansey, and Mr. P. Pipkin, Esq. The
picture of Mr. Dink's school, too, is capital, and where else in fiction
is there a better nick-name than that the boys gave to poor little
Stephen Treadwell, "Step Hen," as he himself pronounced his name in an
unfortunate moment when he saw it in print for the first time in his
lesson in school.
On the whole, these books are very satisfactory, and afford the critical
reader the rare pleasure of the works that are just adequate, that
easily fulfill themselves and accomplish all they set out to
do.--_Scribner's Monthly._
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.'S POPULAR JUVENILES
=JACK HAZARD SERIES.=
6 vols. BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE $7.25
Jack Hazard and His Fortunes.
Doing His Best.
The Young Surveyor.
A Chance for Himself.
Fast Friends.
Lawrence's Adventures.
* * * * *
=CHARLES ASBURY STEPHENS.=
"This author wrote his "Camping Out Series" at the very height of his
mental and physical powers.
"We do not wonder at the popularity of these books; there is a
freshness and variety about them, and an enthusiasm in the description
of sport and adventure, which even the older folk can hardly fail to
share."--_Worcester Spy._
"The author of the Camping Out Series is entitled to rank as decidedly
at the head of what may be called boys' literature."--_Buffalo
Courier._
=CAMPING OUT SERIES.=
By C. A. STEPHENS.
=All books in this series are 12mo. with eight full page illustrations.
Cloth, extra, 75 cents.=
CAMPING OUT. As Recorded by "Kit."
"This book is bright, breezy, wholesome, instructive, and stands above
the ordinary boys' books of the day by a whole head and
shoulders."--_The Christian Register_, Boston.
LEFT ON LABRADOR; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE SCHOONER YACHT "CURLEW." As
Recorded by "Wash."
"The perils of the voyagers, the narrow escapes, their strange
expedients, and the fun and jollity when danger had passed, will make
boys even unconscious of hunger."--_New Bedford Mercury._
OFF TO THE GEYSERS; OR THE YOUNG YACHTERS IN ICELAND. As Recorded by
"Wade."
"It is difficult to believe that Wade and Read and Kit and Wash were
not live boys, sailing up Hudson Straits, and reigning temporarily
over an Esquimaux tribe."--_The Independent_, New York.
LYNX HUNTING: From Notes by the Author of "Camping Out."
"Of first quality as a boys' book, and fit to take its place beside
the best."--_Richmond Enquirer._
FOX HUNTING. As Recorded by "Raed."
"The most spirited and entertaining book that has as yet appeared. It
overflows with incident, and is characterized by dash and brilliancy
throughout."--_Boston Gazette._
ON THE AMAZON; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE "RAMBLER." As Recorded by "Wash."
"Gives vivid pictures of Brazilian adventure and scenery."--_Buffalo
Courier._