"In the execution of his work thus far, Professor Tyler has evinced a skill in the arrangement of his materials, and a masterly power of combination, which will at once place it in a very eminent rank among American historical compositions. It is not so much the history of a special development of literature, as a series of profound and brilliant studies on the character and genius of a people of whom that literature was the natural product. The work betrays acute philosophical insight, a rare power of historical research, and a cultivated literary habit, which was perhaps no less essential than the two former conditions, to its successful accomplishment. The style of the author is marked by vigor, originality, comprehensiveness, and a curious instinct in the selection of words. In this latter respect, though not in the moulding of sentences, the reader may perhaps be reminded of the choice and fragrant vocabulary of Washington Irving, whose words alone often leave an exquisite odor like the perfume of sweet-brier and arbutus."—George Ripley, in The Tribune.
THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1763-1783
Two volumes, large octavo. Sold separately.
Volume I.—1763-1776. Volume II.—1776-1783. Each $3.00.
This work is the result of an altogether new and original treatment of the American Revolution. The outward history of that period has been many times written, and is now, by a new school of American historians, being freshly re-written in the light of larger evidence, and after a more disinterested and judicial method. In the present work, for the first time in a systematic and complete way, is set forth the inward history of our Revolution,—the history of its ideas, its spiritual moods, its passions, as these uttered themselves at the time in the writings of the two parties of Americans who either promoted or resisted that great movement.
THREE MEN OF LETTERS
Chapters in Literary Biography and Criticism devoted to
George Berkeley, Timothy Dwight, and Joel Barlow.
12°, gilt top, $1.25.
"Though more lengthy than most of the sketches in Professor Tyler's well-known 'History,' these monographs have much of the brevity of their original purpose; and they are marked by the same picturesqueness of treatment, the same vivacity of expression, and the same felicity of statement, that characterize the author's larger volumes."—The Nation.