Diary of an Officer of the Brigade of Savoy in the Campaign of Lombardy

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Página 139 - THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. "The matter of the volume is as interesting as instructive; and though calculated for persons in their teens, it would be no disparagement for elder people to refresh their historical recollections by glancing over it."— WATCHMAN.
Página 139 - Mr. Abbott has a remarkable power of seizing- on the most available features of the character which he undertakes to delineate, and is never at a loss for forcible and felicitous expression. — Courier and Enquirer. The style of illustration might be advantageously adopted in histories designed for old as well as young readers ; the literary execution, also, is a plain, clear narrative of facts, interspersed with reflections. — London Spect.

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