Cables, Submarine -- History; Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892; Inventors -- United States -- Biography
Intensely interesting, because they deal with things that are
common to the knowledge of all Americans who have followed the
progress of the events of the last twenty-five years.--_N. Y.
Herald._
The author has acquitted himself of his trust with rare skill,
judgment, and delicacy; and while there is never absent from the
pages of this memoir a distinct appreciation of the character and
achievements of its subject, it is happily free from the suggestion
of fulsome eulogism.--_Philadelphia Press._
Of the literary quality and the fairness of this work nothing need
be said. Mr. Bigelow's name is a guarantee of excellence, of
faithfulness, and fairness. The work will have first rank among the
biographies of the year.--_Boston Advertiser._
The most important American biography that has been published in
many years. Moreover, its importance and interest are progressive
and cumulative.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
The Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden. Edited by JOHN
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The Puritan in Holland, England, and America. An Introduction to
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The tone of the work is calm and judicial, and the style of the
writer is clear and dignified, possessing a literary finish which
gives the work a place of honor among our national histories. It
will modify many prevalent conceptions of American history with its
novel way of accounting for some of the things existing among us;
but the facts the author summons from the results of his wide
researches, and his well-balanced judgment in dealing with these
results, amply sustain him in the novel positions he assumes. The
work is a classic of American history, and is an addition to the
literature of the country of which we may be proud.--_Observer_, N.
Y.
The more one scrutinizes this book the firmer becomes conviction
that the brilliant and scholarly author has made his point and
accomplished his end. The tone is rational and wholesome, and the
book itself a memorial of careful and laborious
investigation.--_Philadelphia Ledger._
A more interesting book of the kind has not appeared since Mr.
Green wrote his "Short History of the English People."--_N. Y.
Herald._
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