'A Literary & Historical Atlas of America' by J. G. Bartholomew is a volume of work that portrays the vast growth of the United States, as well as its northern and southern neighbors, through a series of small atlases. These maps are meant to knit up geographical and historical knowledge with the facts of commerce and the literary record of each land or region. The volume traces the development of the United States, from the most remarkable parts of the New England of the Pilgrim Fathers to the territories of the old American-Indian nations.