Excerpt from De Bow's Review of the Southern and Western States, 1851, Vol. 11: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Statistics, General Literature, &C There are other faults which, without being over captions, we might find with Mr. Gayarre'a work for example, his frequent indulgence of personification and exclamation, his occasional redundancy, and above all, the retention of the preface which introduced the publication of the first part a year or two ago, and which, whatever its merits in any other place, is certainly devoid of dignity and appropriateness in this. These objections, however, take nothing from our high esti mate of the general merits of the publication, and of its claims upon the community for a wide and liberal encouragement. The nu thor has labored long in the service of his native state. He has prepared and published a laborious history of it in the French lan guage, which, so far as remuneration was concerned, has proved but a labor of love. In the future, we wish him some more substantial evidences of favor than were accorded to that history. We believe that he will find them in the present volume, and that which is im mediately to follow. S. R. W. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.