“The scholarship easily surpasses that in any other undertaking of the kind, and the clear, pleasing and simple style makes the book eminently readable.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1479. Je. 29, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “As a study of the growth of the nation, from the political, institutional, industrial and social point of view, it stands without a rival.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 80w. |
“We do not know of a better brief discussion of the discovery of America, nor any so good of the intimate relation between the English-Spanish commercial rivalry of the sixteenth century and the English colonizing enterprises of the seventeenth.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. |
“It is thoughtful and well written, and deserves the attention which should be accorded to the work of any scholarly man whose writing is the result of careful study and mature reflection.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 464. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1360w. |
“It is in this constant striving to grasp the spirit of the times and to assist to a better understanding of movements and events as they appeared to those participating in them that the special significance of Professor Channing’s work lies.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 41. S. 2, ‘05. 640w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w. |