Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-03

History Of the United States from tho Aboriginal
Times to the Present Day. BY John Clark hidpath,
A. NJ. Professor of History and b. -Lettres. III
diana Asbury University. Royal Octave, Illus
uated with Maps, Charts, Portraits and Diagrams.
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natl.
IL is now the pleasure, as it has
always been the duty, OF every citi-
zen to inform himself thoroughly
upon all that pertains TO the history
aud progress of our Free Republic
and never was the path of duty more
clearly the path of pleasure, than 10
the perusal of this work.
The brilliant style, the evidence of
careful research, the power of Illus
tration and condensation, the foe
touches of philosophy, and keen
analysis of character and motives,
all constitute it the best popular his
tory of America that has yet APP
peared. Every material fact, from
the first voyage of the Northmen TO
the shores OF Massachusetts and Lab.
rador, to the opening of the Centen-
NAL at Philadelphia, is set down in
it's order, and the whole record bound
together with a chain of philosophy
which renders it unique as the pro-
duction of original genius.
A noteworthy feature of the work
is the method in which the author
has summed up the character, acts
and motives of the various pIoml~
nent men, each summary giving us
better idea of the man than we
could have obtained from a volume
of the ordinary dissertations. Where
is there TO be found in the English
language finer SUN mary than this:
"The new president, though not yet thirty
wears of age, was veteran in almost every
kind of valuable human experience. Born an
Englishman, trained as soldier IN the wars oil
Holland a traveller in France, Italy and
EgyDt; again soldier in Hungary captured
by the Turks and sold as slave; sent from
Csnstantinople to prison in the Crimea; Kill
ing a taskmaster who beat him, and then es-
Gaping through the woods of Russia to West
ern Europe going with an army of adventur-
ers against Morocco; finally returning to
London and Joining the London Company
he was now called upon by the very enemies
who had prosecuted him to rescue them and
their colony from destruction. A strange and
wonderful career John Smith was altogether
the most noted man in the early history OF
America.
The work is divided into historic
al periods, of which the first is de-
voted TO thu Indians before the dis
covery.
Next TO be treated ia the Period Of
Voyage and Discovery.
The third division is the Colonial
Period, which is treated with signal
ability. Then comes the Period OF
Revolution aud Confederation, end
ing with the adoption of the Consti.
tution. which ushers us into the Ma
tional Period. The fairness and i'm :
partially of the work cannot be too
highly commended. The author EVIL
IDENTIFY knows no North or South, no
East or West in affection; ell are in
cluded in his catholic liberality and
ardent patriotism. The closing re-
view should be studied by every cit
izen. The spirit in which the author
wrote. shines forth in tbs following
extract:
"The idea that the United States are one Ma
ton and not thirty-eight nations, is the
grand cardinal doctrine of sound political
faith. State pride and sectional attachment
are natural passions in the human breast, and
are SO near akin to patriotism as to be distin
guished from it only in the court of higher
reason. But there is a nobler love of country
- "a patriotism that rises above all places and
sections that knows no County, no State, no
North, no South, but only native land that
claims no mountain slope that clings to no
river bank; that worships no range of hills
but lifts the aspiring eye to a continent res
deemedfrom barbarism by common sacrifices,
and made sacred by the shedding of kindred
blood Such patriotism is the cable and
sheet>anchor of our hope.
We have never examined a vol
ume with greater satisfaction. and
We are confident that th ose who pro-
cure this valuable book, will unite
with Us in saying that it is Together
the best History Of the United States
that has yet been Published. The
Maps, Charts. Diagrams, and Illus
trations are of tho highest charac' cr;
the lotter press supurb; the binding
substantial and elegant; and the
price so reasonable as to be within
the reach of every family.