Adventure and adventurers > Away in the wilderness, or, Life among the red Indians and fur-traders of North America

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From the Rev. W. Lindsay Alexander, D.D.,
of Edinburgh.
" I have read with much satisfaction the first three volumes of Balhm-
tone’s Miscellany. The books seem to me admirably adapted to the end
the author has in view,—the diffusing of useful knowledge in a pleasing
and attractive form. Mr. Ballantyne possesses great powers of graphic
description, and is an excellent teller of a story. His books are what
Dr. Arnold so anxiously desired to see—books on secular subjects written
in a religious spirit.”
From the Rev. Aubrey O. Price, of the Lock Chapel,
London.
“ My dear Mb. Baluantyne,—I have read the volumes already issued
of your MiscelUmy with the greatest pleasure and interest. I believe that
the Miscellany will meet a real and widely felt want. I cordially wish you
success in your endeavour to provide interesting and useful reading for
the masses, and I feel assured that you will have it. I shall do my best
to recommend your Miscellany everywhere.”
From Mrs. Wightman, Shrewsbury.
I hail with delight a work at once so attractive and sound, written in
such a spirited way, and containing so much valuable information.”
Athenseum.—“ We have no hesitation in asserting that Ballantyne’s
Miscellany, up to the present point, is attractive and useful. There is no
more practical way of communicating elementary information than that
which has been adopted in this series. When we see contained in 124
small pages (as in Fast in the Ice) such information as a man of fair educa¬
tion should possess about icebergs, northern lights, Esquimaux, musk¬
oxen, bears, walruses, etc., together with all the ordinary incidents of an
Arctic voyage woven into a clear connected narrative, we must admit that
a good work has been done, and that the author deserves the gratitude ot
those for whom the books are especially designed, and also of young
people of all classes.”
British and Foreign Evangelical Review.—“ A capita!
series for the amusement and instruction of all youthful readers, being
full of moving incidents in field and flood.”
Scotsman, Edinburgh.—“ The three volumes of the series already
issued promise well for the success of the scheme. The future volumes
will no doubt prove not less interesting than those before us.”
Christian World.—“ Three of these volumes are issued, and fully
justify the conviction that the entire series will be highly attractive to all
classes of readers. They will be found to be first-rate family stories.”
Daily Herald, Glasgow.—“ For men and women who have n«
opportunities of reading books of natural history, or narratives of trave
and adventure, for themselves, these little books are singularly well
adapted ; as also for putting into the hands of boys and girls. They are
just such books as are likely to engender a healthy taste for general