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The Journals of Captains Lewis and Clark,

1804-5-6 (McClurg Library Reprints of Americana)

Reprinted from the Edition of 1814. With an Introduc tion by JAMES K. HOSMER, LL.D., an analytical Index, and photogravure portraits and maps. In two volumes, boxed, 1,083 pages, gilt top. $5.00 net. Large-paper edition, on Brown s hand-made paper, illustrations on Japan vellum, limited to 150 copies, boxed. $18.00 net.

"The republication of the complete narrative is both timely and invalu able. . . . Dr. Hosmer is well known as an authority on Western history; hence to see his name on the title-page is to know that the work has been well done." Portland Oregonian.

"The celebrated story of the expedition of Lewis and Clark has now been put in an easily accessible form." N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

"Of the several new editions of this valuable narrative, this is by far the best and most complete." Minneapolis Journal.

"We have nothing but praise for this clear and handsome reprint." The Nation.

McDonald of Oregon

By EVA EMERY DYE. A Tale of Two Shores. I2mo, 395 P a g es > w th six full-page pictures by Walter J. Enright. $1.50.

Mrs. Dye has now established her unequalled position as the historian-novelist of the Northwest. She has developed the possibili ties of history in fiction form farther than any other American writer.

Ranald McDonald was an impressive figure in a momentous period of our history. He was a prominent factor of the Hudson s Bay Company, and was identified with the early movements concern ing the accession of the Oregon Territory by the United States.

The chance casting away of a party of Japanese on the Oregon coast many years ago inspired McDonald to enact a similar drama in his own proper self with the characters and continents reversed. In Japan he was permitted to establish a school, and it was actually his pupils who acted as interpreters during the negotiations with Com modore Perry.

His sturdy life was itself a romance of extraordinary interest; that of a pioneer who had to make a way against obstacles unknown to-day.

Mrs. Dye learned her facts from McDonald s own lips, and only deferred publication until his papers finally reposed in her hands.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer expresses the general sentiment of the press, in the following estimate of this remarkable book :

"It is like the telling of some grand old epic, to show the spirit of those men who blazed the trail to an unknown wilderness."

A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO