RHODES’S UNITED STATES
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. By James Ford Rhodes. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops. Vols. I. and II., 1850-1860, $5 00; Vol. III., 1860-1862, $2 50.
If there is a book now in course of publication which supplies an urgent want, it is the “History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850,” by James Ford Rhodes.... It was high time that the service herein rendered by the author of this work should have been performed.—N. Y. Sun.
Mr. Rhodes’s pages bring before us a vivid picture of what we were forty years ago.... The author’s candid and impartial spirit are as evident as his intelligence.—N. Y. Times.
In no single publication can the student of American politics obtain a more satisfactory and reliable account of the slavery agitation beginning with the Compromise measures of 1850 and culminating in civil war a decade thereafter than in the first two volumes issued by Mr. Rhodes.... The third volume, now before us, fully maintains the high character and complete research of the first two volumes.—Philadelphia Times.
A work which no serious student of American affairs can afford to overlook. In wealth of erudition, in breadth of view, in attainment of the true historical perspective, it has qualities of obviously high and impressive merit, while in the charm that comes from graceful literary expression it has nothing to lose by comparison with the histories of the country that have heretofore ranked as standard.—Boston Beacon.
Volume III. is the fitting and able sequel of the two which have preceded it. It is an informing work. The author draws from a multitude of sources, digests his material well, and writes in a style that is at once readable and instructive.... Such a history as that which Mr. Rhodes is furnishing has great and permanent value.—Observer, N. Y.
Mr. Rhodes is a historian, not a partisan; a chronicler of truth, not an advocate, yet possessing a style which makes his chronicles interesting and refreshing. Carefully sifting his material, with a keen appreciation of literary and historical values, he has earned a prominent place in the ranks of American historians.—Boston Advertiser.