The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-02-22
GEN. MCRADYS GREAT WORK..
Another Favorable N Office from an Eng
lish Journal.

press, and it now has begun to attract
attention in England, as will be seen
by the review of it in the Speaker,
London, published below.
Among the notices in this country
which have recently come to this Office
is a very pleasant one by so excellent
an authority as Prof. B. G. Steiner,
in Annals of the American Academy.
Prof. Seeiner says:
"This is the beginning of what bids
fair to be one of the best Of our State
histories. Mr.. N1cCrady promises to
follow this volume with the further
history of the Palmetto State to the
close Of the American Revolution.
We trust he will rot stop there. NO
State needs to have her history writ
ten more than South Carolina, and no
one is SO we'll fitted to write that his
tory as our author. Too many OF our
historical writer's are Too timorous or
too little alive to the Importance OF
the history of the various portions OF
the Union under The Federal Constl-
tuition, and so stop their work too
soon. South Carolina S history should
be written down to the close Of the
reconstruction period in 1876, and
though we should probably disagree
with many things Mr.. McCrady would
write in the latter portion Of the work,
we are most anxious to see him under
take the task. 1t would be most
valuable treatise for the student of
American history and politics" !"
y x X k
Prof. n. L. Osgood, reviewing in
the Political Science Quarterly, Bos-
ton, Mass, The First Republic in
America, by Alexander Brown, and
Gen. McCrady's history, writes:
ga book of different order, though
upon a kindred subject, is McCrady's
History Of South Carolina Under the
Proprietary Government. 1t supplies
long felt need, and when the work
which the author has planned shall
have been carried through to the Rev
olution we are confident that a strong
light will be cast upon what has been
hitherto an obscure period in early
American history. The volume be-
fore us is the result Of thorough
study of all accessible sources. The
influence Of Rivers is in evidence and
is frequently acknowledged, but
throughout the volume there is abun-
dant proofs Of original thought and
research. The documents in the Co.
lonial Records of North Carolina have
been utilized so far as they throw
light on the Southern province. Mono
graphs and pamphlets have not been
overlooked. Though social causes and
conditions have not been neglected,
the book is mainly political and legal
in character. The authors profess
sional training enables him to discuss
legal questions in convincing man
ner, and to give them considerable
prominence. Like other good Caro-
linians, he is not lacking in State
pride, but this is restrained within
reasonable bounds. The organization
and policy Of the board Of proprietors
are discussed thoroughly and with
fairness. The conflicts with the In
dians, with pirates and with the Span
iards, the peculiar difficulties to which
South Carolina was exposed as bor-
der province, receive their due share
Of attention. Reference is made to
European relations so far as they had
bearing on the history Of the prov
ince. The book is Unusually free
from errors, and in accuracy, thought
fulness and fairness OF spirit closely
comes up to the measure of what
State history should be-.
x < K q y
THE FOUNDING OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
The History Of South Carolina Under
the Proprietary Government, 1910
1719. By Edward McCrady. New
York: The Macmillan Company:
London: Macmillan & Go.
Mr., McCrady's book deals, at what
to English readers may seem excessive
length, with the early history Of his
native State. There were less than
1000 whites in South Carolina when
the Proprietary Government ended,
and he has filled 200 pages in telling
US how they got there. But the book
is so carefully and we'll done, written
with such grasp and breadth, that it
cannot be dismissed as Of merely local
interest. We are too apt to take all
our American history from New Eng
landers, or all our Southern history
gov, V;roin;ans and thus to overlook