It is for the most part favorable, but the reviewer has
not read the work closely enough to follow Mr. Flint's
movements. He thinks that Mr. Flint lived longest
at Jackson, Missouri, and that he made one visit to
New England during the first ten years of his western
residence. The impression of the reviewer concern-
ing the work as a whole is worth notice. He says:

We wish Mr. Timothy Flint had fallen in our way before
we drew up our account of Mrs. TroUopc On the Domestic
Manners of the Americans^ because the two writers travel over
much of the same ground, and the contrasts as well as the paral-
lels, which their descriptions of nature and society present, are full
of interest. Having lost the opportunity of presenting them
together -we must be contented with expressing our hope that
these Recollections may be reprinted in this country, and placed
in every library of voyages and travels, on the same shelf with

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those two little volumes which seem to have proved such bitter
chewing to our Radicals and Whigs. With obvious faults, Mr.
Flint's style is marked by countervailing excellencies, being lively,
flowing, often vigorous, and, in general, quite unaffected ; but this
is a secondary merit. These pages reflect a sincere, humane, and
liberal character, a warm and gentle heart and hardly even m
prejudice that is not amiable.
The reviewer is in full sympathy with Mr. Flint
except that he is ^^pulled up" by the unfavorable com-
parison of the present European nations with the an-
cient people of America known as Moundbuilders.
