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"A book actually fascinating from beginning to end."--Prest.
J.B. Angell.

"As the work stands, it may rightfully claim a place on the library
table of every cultivated American."--_New York Times._

"No work of similar scope and magnitude and erudition exists, or
has been attempted in this country."--_New York Evangelist._

"A unique and valuable work."--_Chicago Tribune._

"A work which will rank with those of Sismondi, Ticknor, and
Taine."--_New York Evening Express._

"It is this philosophical character of the work which brings it not
far distant from the works of Taine, of Buckle, and of
Lecky."--_Buffalo Express._

"One can hardly speak too strongly in praise of these
conscientious, careful and successful volumes, which deserve to be
studied alike by scholars and patriots."--_Rev. Henry Martyn
Dexter, D.D._

"But the plan of Professor Tyler's book is so vast and its
execution so fearless, that no reader can expect or wish to agree
with all its personal judgments. It is a book truly admirable, both
in design and in general execution; the learning is great, the
treatment wise, the style fresh and vigorous. Here and there occurs
a phrase which a severer revision would perhaps exclude, but all
such criticisms are trivial in view of so signal a success. Like
Parkman, Professor Tyler may almost be said to have created, not
merely his volumes, but their theme. Like Parkman, at any rate, he
has taken a whole department of human history, rescued it from
oblivion, and made it henceforward a matter of deep interest to
every thinking mind."--T.W. Higginson, in _The Nation_.

"The work betrays acute philosophical insight, a rare power of
historical research, and a cultivated literary habit, which was
perhaps no less essential than the two former conditions, to its
successful accomplishment. The style of the author is marked by
vigor, originality, comprehensiveness, and a curious instinct in
the selection of words. In this latter respect, though not in the
moulding of sentences, the reader may perhaps be reminded of the
choice and fragrant vocabulary of Washington Irving, whose words
alone often leave an exquisite odor like the perfume of sweet-briar
and arbutus."--George Ripley, in the _Tribune_.

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