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The author q this work seems TO have had In
constant view the celebrated treatise Of Lucian--
"How History ought to be written" Truth in
its severity and reason In It's manly state, are the
chief MUSES. and Graccs TO which he has done obe-
dience. What different view has bcen opened to
US Of the state Of nations fby-gone ages from that
which has been presented tous by other historians.
No wonder that the numbers already issued, have
met with large sale, and been hailed by frequent
Iaudatory notices Of the press Of which few q
bridgcd extracts hcre'are subjoined. 81
si From the Democratic Reu;epl
This beautiful octavo--the first volume Of DR..
hebbe's Universal History--forms the initial vol
tune Of uew and greatly improved work, devoted
othe history ofthc Universe, based not merely
upon the usually received data Of former historians
but derived from the best authorities, attestcd by
revelations Of modern discovery. The recent re-
searches in archaeology by Chevalier Bunsen, 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 volsme, however we
find no cause to regret that the theme should have
been reserved for the judicous and aborious press
Of DR.. Hcbbc. To such cannot command the
leisure for more systematic course Of study, this
work proves eminently important and valuable,
since, when completed. it will form compendous
literary Of universal history, the most accurate
and complete extent, and written up to the spirit
of the age.
From the New York Tribune, Sept. 23.
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 re-cxami-
nation we hesitate not to pronounce that this vol
ume history Of the earliest period ofmankind
has rival in any single work of universal histo-
ry in the English language. aG
From Graham's Magazine.
The author of the Universal History now in
publication, judging from the portion of it 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
face of events and tracked the source of political
convulsons by thousand pulse back to the hidden
heart Of some great principle.
From the Boston Transcript
DR.. Hcbbe, by availing himself of the light
which the Egyptian hieoroogists and other inves-
tgators of antiquity have shed on tho earliest his
tory of man, by means of his vast erudtions ena-
bling him to avoid the errors of compiers, and to
draw from the orional and most ,IndOubted so,lr-