The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-10
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Colonization OF the South Story Of Amer
lean Land Of Romance Ip Its Begin
nlngs-voIume III. Of History OF North
America, by Peter Joseph Hamilton,
Fully Up to the STANDARD Set for the
Completed Work. f'sa1 ..s

The story OF the land where were ex-
pected to be found fountains Of eternal
youth and vast quantities Of gold and
precious stones, veritable heaven, In
deed, but where no such things were
found, is the story that Peter Joseph Ham
ilton tells graphically and with the charm
OF high literary qualities in volume No.
OF the History Of North America = The
volume bears the title The Colonization Of
the South. It Is not by any means the
first OF the authors work. It follows
"Rambles in Historic Lands. ." Colonial
Mobile and other books which show their
writer to be qualified for the task I'M
dertaken In this his latest work. DR.. Guy
Carleton Lee, the editor Of the history,
says of the volume: 4
In the present volume the great men
OF the past live again. We range the for
ests with soldiers and hunters of France
and Spain, and seek, as it were, to fur
ther the ambitious schemes Of conflicting
| commanders. We sail with colonists that
Raleigh sent, and we labor under the rule
| OF the Virginia company. We are with
| Oglethorpe and his associates in his Geor-
gian enterprise
New Material Obtained.
The author has, Of course gone to origi-
nal sources for his information. He says
! Of his quest, in part:
For Spanish and French times, I have
ACQUIRED much new material in maps
/ and documents, from Spain and France;
and the study Of British Florida that in
1 teresting If abortive British colony is
almost original based on the Haldimand
/ Papers and much manuscript material in
i England. 1t may not be amiss to add
that John F'iske urged the author to take
| up this as a valuable and neglected field.
It is hoped, therefore, that the present
! volume will tend to unity the beginnings
Of southern history and institutions, to
ICtS Loo
! was played upon this stage, and how
much OF American history finds here its
! genesis or explanation
+. The scope of the volume is summarized
by the author in his preface thus:
. Informally the material falls naturally
into five parts. The first would relate tC
the Spanish French and English begin
nings and embrace the first three chap
tiers. A second part would cover British
colonization in the seventeenth century
particularly Virginia and Carolina, anc
their institutions A third would concern
itself with Louisiana in all it's extent
from La Sale to the royal governors, as
found in chapters TX. to XIII. The
fourth would cover the time of conflict g.
Latin and Teuton, in trade and war, witt
I a view Of Georgia, founded at this period
The concluding part, from chapter XIX
on, would have to do with the growth o
H the AnglO-Saxons after the peace of Paris
not neglecting to look also at the Latil
expansion and at the Americanizatiol
which prepared the way for the revolu
: ton"
Foundations of History.
Of course, all this is highly importan
! as a part of the history Of North America
, For q true understanding of the histor
: of the country, just appreciation of tn
, complex growth of the south is indispen
2 sable, and, thanks to- the present author
that. Understanding a ~