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It has been Mr. Hancock’s endeavour to give a “complete short history and picture of Chile in a single volume.” We may congratulate him on having achieved his design. Mr. Hancock’s virtues are those of painstaking chronicler. And he has those virtues in full quantity. Not that the author is without dramatic power. The concluding chapters of this valuable book on the ethnology, geology, agriculture, communications, and resources of Chile are of great interest.—London Saturday Review.
Within the compass of less than 500 octavo pages the author gives a succinct and rapid narrative of the history of Chile, its institutions, the character of its people, and its present conditions, resources and outlook. He has made a painstaking examination of authorities, and has preserved a due sense of proportion.—Boston Journal.
It is on the period between the years 1830 and 1880, however, that the interest of the reader will concentrate itself, and recognizing this fact Mr. Hancock has spared no pains in rendering this part of the work the most brilliant and authentic. It is in every respect a thoroughly readable and accurate work, dealing with the history of a country which promises to be of much greater importance among the nations of the earth.—Philadelphia Item.
CHARLES H. SERGEL COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.