The Making of Pennsylvania.
The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States.
Each volume. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA.
BY SYDNEY GEORGE FISHER.
THE TRUE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
With numerous illustrations, portraits, and fac-similes. Crown octavo. Cloth, $2.00. Uniform with “The True George Washington.”
“Mr. Fisher has done a service to American literature and history which is not to be measured alone by the facts supplied in his book. There is a sentimental value to his study, which resides in its effect upon the public mind in making us realize the true proportions of one of our few great men. Washington and Franklin are the true figures in our early history to which the verdict of the world has given lasting fame. Paul Leicester Ford has changed Washington from a myth into a human being. Mr. Fisher has done the same for Franklin. Of the two heroes Washington was the less understood. But the popular conception of Franklin in its way was also far from the truth. The result of Mr. Fisher’s analysis of Franklin will be to make him more distinctly a great American than ever he was to us before. Mr. Fisher evidently has made a careful study of Franklin; first, as he reveals himself in his own writings and in his life; and, secondly, as his biographers and those who were contemporary with him have estimated him. He destroys some popular delusions concerning him, and, on the other hand, brings out more clearly and forcibly than heretofore the greatness of certain qualities of his character which have been rather lost sight of or neglected. Mr. Fisher has done his work with the painstaking care and skill that have made his various other books along historical lines of recognized merit. He writes clearly, frankly, and without prejudice.”—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA.