Our Artist in Cuba: Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5.

Carleton, George Washington · 1901

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. WITH many misgivings, the author of this little _brochure_ has been persuaded to give the prominence of publication to a mere pocket-book collection of way-side pen-and-ink sketches, the chance results of idle moments, sandwiched with such Cuban events as paring oranges and sipping from their cups of nectar--tearing through the narrow streets of Havana in ragged volantes--listening in the soft moonlight, and arm-in-arm with Cuban señoritas, to the Artillery band in the Plaza des Armas--assisting with domino and false nose at the masquerades in the Tacon Theatre--lounging with ices or deli…

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