Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-01-20
AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY.


L THE PRESENT TIME. BY G. C. HrnbE
l.. L. d. Now ready. LIST volumc bound in cloth.
Price s 75--and to be continued in monthly
parts, until finished, five numbers forming vol
umc, 25 cts. per number.
The author of this work seems TO have had in
constant view the celebrated treatise OF IIucian--
"How History ought 10 he written" Truth in
its sevority and reason in its manly state, arc the
chief MUSES. and Graccs to which he has done obe-
diencc. What different view has been opened to
us of the state of nations ofbygone ages from that
which has been presented to.us by other historians
No wonder that the numbers already issued, have
met with large sale, and been hailed by frequent
laudatory notices of the press Of which few a.
bridgcd extracts here are subioincd.
From the Democratic Rerie,c.
This beautiful octavo--thc first volume Of DR..
Hebbc's Universal History--forms the initial vol
uine OF a new and greatly improved work, devoted
to the history Of the Universe based not merely
upon the usually received data of former historians
but derived from the best authorities, attcstcd by
revelations of m odcrn discovery. The recent re-
searches in archaeology by Chcvacr Bunscn, and
other learned investigators, among ancient monu-
mental records, have entirely change the aspect
of primitive times and revealed SO many important
new data, that the wonder has been not that such
work as the present should make its appearance
but rather that the task should not have been be-
fore attempted in Europe. From somewhat
careful examination of this volume, however we
find no cause TO regret that the theme should have
been reserved for the judcious and laborious press
of DIR. Hebbe. To such cannot command the
leisure for more systematic of study, this
work proves eminently important and valuable,
since, when completed: it will form a compcndous
literary of universal history, the most accurate
and complete extent, and written up to the spirit
Of the age.
From the Ncw York Tribune, Sept. 2s]
In regard to the literary execution of this work,
we have spoken as the numbers appeared, but not
as fully as its merits deserve. Now, on rc-cxami-
nation we hesitate not to pronounce that this vol
umc as history Of the earliest period ofmankind
has no rival in any single work Of universal histo-
ry in the English language.
From Graham's Maqa.inel
The author of the Universal History now in
publication. judging from the portion Of il already
published. is equal to his task. He comes to it
prepared by twenty years of study, and familiar
acquaintance with all the necessary authorities,
not only those to whom we look for solid records
of facts but those who have gone beneath the sur
face Of events and tracked the source of political
convulsions by thousand pulse back to the hidden
heart OF some great principle.
From the Boston Transcript
DIR. Hchbc, by availing himself of the light
which the Egyptian hieorologists and other inves-
tigaors Of antiquity have shed OH the earliest his
tory OF man, by means of his vast erudtions cna.
bling him to avoid the errors of compers, and to
draw from the original and most unioubted sour.
ces ofauthority. and by his acute Judgement, his
liberal philosophy, his deep sympathy with huma-
nifty, and his enthusiastic love for his favorite stu
dy, has produced what may be termed in many
respects original history of the infant nations Of
the world The work is written in the most en-
larged and liberal spirit while the author rejects
the superstition Of the ancient priesthood he is
stout defender of the immortal and sublime truths
of Christianity.
From the Neu York True SUM-
The style of DR.. Hcbbe, though writing in a
tongue foreign to him, is always flowing and ami
mated, sometimes picturesque, and sometimes even
eloquent and sublime.
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December 80, lS4S--3t