| + + | Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“The process of the evolution of the nation is thus given a biographical character in a novel method of writing history.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 630w. |
Sparks, Edwin Erle. [United States of America.] [**]$1.35. Putnam.
This is essentially a history of our constitutional evolution, and treats of the great movements in our federal life and “those centralizing or decentralizing factors which have aided or hindered the unification of the states,” of finances, internal improvements, the tariff, slavery, and the constitutional aspects of the Civil war and reconstruction, little space is given to war and war-time events.
“His judgments are acceptable; he shows discrimination in the selection of materials, a fine art in presentation, a vivacious style.” James A. Woodburn.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 883. Jl. ‘05. 810w. |
“The purpose is well carried out, and the work is therefore eminently a timely one.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 140w. |
“One can hardly call the work a history in the truest sense; it is rather a prose epic of American nationality.”