| + — — | Ind. 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 630w. |
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
| — — | Reader. 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. |
Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union, 1698-1774. [**]$3.50. Putnam.
Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement of the people and their political history, wars, industries and agriculture, religions and social conditions, and contemporaneous European history.
“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour, written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better than any other work yet produced the various phases and aspects of that surprising development—the birth of a new race.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 851. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1230w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is to be regretted that a work so attractively got up should thus far exhibit so slight intrinsic merit of either substance or form.”
| — | Nation. 80: 435. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“In short, the style of Messrs. Chancellor and Hewes grows monotonous and fatiguing. They occasionally get hopelessly entangled in the meshes of inaccuracy and irrelevancy. Historical errors are extremely common.”