Review of reviews and world's work . ROBERT FULTON. (From a miniature reproduced in Robert Fultonand tlie ume all the essential facts recorded by the ex-plorers authoritative biographers, and has ap-pended to the narrative a reprint of a newlydiscovered contemporary account of the trialof the mutineers by whom Hudson was aban-doned to his death. In her sprightly story, Robert Fulton andthe Clermont, ?_ IMiss Alice Crary Sutcliffe hasattempted to give an authoritative account ofthe early experiments of Fulton more than torecount the triumph with which we are all fa-miliar. The volu
Review of reviews and world's work . ROBERT FULTON. (From a miniature reproduced in Robert Fultonand tlie ume all the essential facts recorded by the ex-plorers authoritative biographers, and has ap-pended to the narrative a reprint of a newlydiscovered contemporary account of the trialof the mutineers by whom Hudson was aban-doned to his death. In her sprightly story, Robert Fulton andthe Clermont, ?_ IMiss Alice Crary Sutcliffe hasattempted to give an authoritative account ofthe early experiments of Fulton more than torecount the triumph with which we are all fa-miliar. The volume, which is well illustrated, ^ Henry Hudson. By Thomas A. Janvier. Har-pers. 148 pp., ill. 75 cents. = Robert Fulton and the Clermont. Bv AliceCrarv Sutcliffe. Century. 367 pp., ill. $ FULTON S FIRST PLAN FOR STEAM NAVIG,\TI0N. (Made in 1793 and now first published in RobertFulton and the Clermont.) have been suggested by the Hudson-Fulton cele-bration is The Picturesque Hudson, writtenand illustrated by Clifton Johnson. The Hud-son is one of the few American rivers that haveliterary associations, and the picturesque fea-tures of the Rhine of America have long beenthe theme of the guide-books. Special photo-graphs of river scenes have been made by for this book, and the characteristicscenic features of the river from its mouth toits headwaters are passed in review. A new and useful volume on the New Yorkof the Hudson period is Miss Esther Singletons•Dutch New York.* Miss Singleton will beremembered as the compiler and editor of anumber of volumes on different historical pe-riods. This vohmie-on the American metropolisduring the period of Dutch dominion seems tous particularh well done. The life of the orig-inal Dutch settlers is vividly reconstructed-,
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