“The materials appear to have been gathered hastily, and are thrown together in slap-dash fashion.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 260w. |
“One commendable feature of the book is its definiteness. The reader who seeks a clear, brief statement of the arguments against municipal trading cannot find the case more satisfactorily stated than in Lord Avebury’s book.” Wm. Hill.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 436. Jl. ’07. 950w. |
“A useful handbook for those who may have to debate the subject on public platforms.”
| + | Spec. 97: 213. F. 9, ’07. 1740w. |
Avery, Elroy McKendree. History of the United States and its people. In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
v. 3. “Volume three is devoted to what has been happily termed a neglected period of American history,—a period extending through the latter part of the seventeenth to well toward the meridian of the eighteenth century. Behind it lay the stirring, strenuous and oftentimes intensely exciting period that marked the colonization of the new world and the struggle for a firm foothold,—a struggle that sometimes meant war with Indians, sometimes conflict with rival nations, and ever the fierce battle to subjugate the soil and wring from it more than was needed to supply food, raiment and shelter for the isolated bands on the wilderness frontiers of the new world.”—Arena.
“Mr. Avery has aimed at and achieved ‘readability,’ and at the same time there is little doubt that this will be the standard record of United States history.”