MARK TWAIN'S WAR MAP.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 29, 3 February 1871, Page 2

MARK TWAIN'S WAR MAP.

Mark Twain publishes in the Buffalo Express his first war map. Here ifc is : — TO THE READER. ' - The above map explains itself. The idea of this map is not original with me, but is borrowed from the Tribune and the other great metropolitan journals. I claim no other merit for this production (if I may so call it), than that it is accurate. The main blemish of the city paper maps, of which it is an imitation, is that in them more attention s*eems paid to artistic picturesqueness tban geographical reliability. Inasmuch as this is ihe first time I ever tried to draft and engrave a map, or^ attempted anything in the lino of art atsi*^/ the commendations that the work'^^H^' received and the admiration it has cxcV «*Sr among the people, have been grateful to. my feelings. And it is touching to reflect that by far the most enthusiastic of these praises have come frora people who know nothing about art. By an unimportant oversight I have engraved the map so that ifc reads wrong end first, except to left; banded persons. T forgot that in order to make ifc right ia print ifc should be drawn and engraved np side down. However let the student who desires to contemplate the map stand on his head or bold it before a looking glass. That will bring it right. The readers will comprehend afc a glance that the piece of river with the "High Bridge" over it got left out to one side by reason of a slip of a gravel tool, which rendered ifc necessary to change the entire course of the river Rhine or else spoil the map. After having spent two days in digging and gouging at the map, I would have changed the course of the Atlautic Ocean before I would have lost so much work. I never had so much trouble with anything in my life as I had with this map. I had heaps of little fortifications scattered all around Paris, afc first, but every now and then my instruments would slip and fetch away whole milss of batteries and leave the vicinity a& clean as if the Prussians had been there. - The reader will find it well tor fram, the map for future reference, so that it may aid in extending popular intelligence, and dispelling the wide spread ignorance of the day. Mark Twain. OFFICIAL COMMENDATIONS. " It is tl c only map 6f the kind I ever saw.— - U-. S. Grant." "It places the situation in an entirely new light. — BISMAHCft." " I caunot look back upon it without shedding tears. — Brigham-Young. " It is a very nice large print. — Napoleon. "If I had had this map, I could have got out of Mete without any trouble.— -Bazaine." "I have seen a great many maps in my time, but none this one reminds nic of — Troohu." *' It is but fair to say that iv some respects ifc is truly a remarkable map. — Sherman." "I said to" my son, Frederick William, if you could only make a map like tbat, I would be perfectly willing to see you die ; even anxious. — WIL-TAJf III."