It is written in a terse and vigorous style, and is well adapted for popular reading, and particularly to entertain and instruct the youthful mind.—Mercantile Journal.
Every New Englander should own this book.—Scientific American.
This is a beautifully executed and extremely interesting volume. It is written in a plain, but vigorous style, particularly adapted to the young, though it may be read with interest by the older ones.—Ch. Freeman.
Highly attractive in style and instructive in matter, and well calculated to engage the attention of young persons.—N. Y. Com. Adv.
Mr. Banvard has here produced a work that will be read with pleasure and instruction by every one. The style is clear and forcible, and his manner of weaving incidents and character, and giving position to historical events, felicitous.—Bee.
This book we predict will be, ere long, at the fire-side of every descendant of the Pilgrims in New England.—Commonwealth.
It is written in a pleasing style, abounding in incident, anecdote, and fact. The author has shelled the grain from the dry husks, and so spread a feast better adapted to the tastes and requirements of the young.—Rambler.
This book will be read with peculiar interest by all who would learn the causes which gave to our country its peculiar religious and political character.—Cabinet.
There is no work on American history of the same size which affords an equal amount of information.—Carpet Bag.
It reminds us much of that admirable historical series for the young, Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather.—Ch. Register.