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THE WINNING OF THE WEST.

"An excellent work, such as we think no one else could have written."—London Saturday Review. "A story full of stirring incidents, which never grows dull from the first page to the last; Written after much research, and with impartial soberness; an admirable contribution to the history of America."—London Spectator. "Few writers of American history have covered a wider or better field of research, or are more in sympathy with the best modern method of studying history from original sources."—Atlantic Monthly. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN.

Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. With 27 full-page wood engravings and 8 smaller engravings, from designs by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J. C. Beard, Fannie E. Gifford, and Henry Sandham. Bevelled boards, 8°

"One of those distinctively American books which ought to be always welcomed as contributing distinctly to raise the literary prestige of the country all over the world.—New York Tribune.

"This book may claim an honorable place on the same shelf with Isaac Walton's Complete Angler and Waterton's Wanderings; it is certain to achieve a wide and permanent popularity.—London Spectator.

THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. With an account of the Big Game of the United States, and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle. With illustrations by Remington, Frost, Sandham, Eaton, Beard, and others. 8° "No American is better qualified than Mr. Roosevelt to write on such a subject as this; for he has himself hunted and killed every kind of game native to the United States, has lived on our so-called frontier and known the peculiar life and thought of its people, and above all possesses a true appreciation of nature, animate and inanimate, and the literary ability to relate what he has seen."—New York Nation. "Written by a mighty hunter, also a naturalist as well as a sportsman, a close observer as well as a sure shot; not John Burroughs himself could write more interestingly of the sights and sounds of the wilderness."—Philadelphia Telegraph. THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812. Or, The History of the United States Navy during the last war with Great Britain. To which is appended an account of the Battle of New Orleans. 8th edition, 8°, cloth

"The volume is an excellent one in every respect, and shows in so young an author the best promise for a good historian—fearlessness of statement, caution, endeavor to be impartial, and a brisk and interesting way of telling events."—N. Y. Times. "The most accurate, as it certainly is the most cool and impartial, and in some respects the most intrepid, account that has yet appeared of the naval actions of the war of 1812."—Harper's Monthly. AMERICAN IDEALS, And Other Essays. Social and Political. 12°, gilt top New Library Edition, reset, uniform with "The Winning of the West." 8°, "These papers are of sterling merit, and well worthy of perusal.... Mr. Roosevelt writes in a direct and forcible manner, and shows a broad and intelligent comprehension of the attitude of the citizen towards the problem of municipal government."—Detroit Free Press. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York and London.