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: LAKE ERIE, AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, BY HON. GEORGE BANCROFT, With a Sketch of the Life and Writings of George Bancroft, OLIVER DYER, Author of " Great Senators of the United States," " Character Sketch of Henry W. Grady," " General Andrew Jackson" etc. 18mo. 350 Pages. With. Portrait and Numerons Illustrations. Handsomely Bonnd in Cloth. Uniform with "The New Sonth," By Henry "W. Grady. Price, $1.00. Hon. George Bancroft's description of the Battle of Lake Erie is one of the finest specimens of historical writings in all literature. It is elegant, fiery, picturesque, and absorbingly interesting. It brings out the matchless seamanship of the young American commander, Oliver Hazard Perry—as well as his heroic fortitude and dauntless courage, in a manner to excite emotions of sympathy and exultations in every American heart. Every one of Mr. Bancroft's sketches in this volume is written in his best style and with consummate literary art. Mr. Dyer's sketch of " Bancroft's Life and Writings" is a valuable contribution to biography and to literature. While it gives a plain, matter-of-fact account of the great historian's long and useful life, it presents the varied incidents of his unique career in such a vivid and picturesque manner as to invest them with extraordinary attractiveness. Mr. Dyer's analysis of Mr. Bancroft's writings and his presentation of the historian's literary art are accomplished with such felicity that one reads the fascinating pages with unflagging interest and increasing appreciation. For sale by all booksellers and newsdealers, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the publishers, ROBERT BONNER'S SONS, William And Spruce Streets New York. TO A DEAR FRIEND, CHARLES REGINALD SHERLOCK, Who unites so happily in h...