Twenty years after, tr. by W. Robson

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Page 530 - To Mr. Prescott belongs the rare distinction of uniting solid merit with extensive popularity. He has been exalted to the first class of historians — both by the popular voice and the suffrages of the learned. His fame also is not merely local, or even national — it is as great in London, Paris, and Berlin, as at Boston or New York.
Page 530 - Prescott's works in point of style rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibbon's brilliancy.
Page 529 - Two years have been occupied in their production, and more than Five Hundred Thousand Volumes have been purchased by an intelligent public. When it is considered, that in this reissue, we give the complete Series of Bulwer Lytton's Works for Thirty-one Shillings and Sixpence — a price less than, a few years since, one work alone was sold for — we are at no loss to think the reason why so large a number has actually been sold, but rather to express our surprise that the sale has not been very...
Page 530 - York. His works have been translated into Spanish, German, French, and Italian ; and, into whatever region they have penetrated, they have met a cordial welcome, and done much to raise the character of American letters and scholarship.
Page 530 - Work is now complete as far as he has written it, and contains the history of the American Revolution considered in all its causes — the rise of the Union of the United States from the body of the people— the change in the colonial policy...
Page 530 - Index. Continuing the History from its Colonization, and completing a period in the History of the American Revolution. This cheap edition of Mr. Bancroft's standard Work is now complete as far...
Page 530 - England." Its style is lofty and eloquent, written with candour, neither exaggerating vices of character, nor reviving national animosities, but rendering a just tribute to virtue, wherever found.
Page 530 - This issue of Mr. Prescott's Historical Works is the only cheap one that contains, without the slightest abridgment, all the Notes of the original octavo American editions. " To Mr. Prescott belongs the rare distinction of uniting solid ma* t with extensive popularity.
Page 529 - ... reason why so large a number has actually been sold, but rather to express our surprise that the sale has not been very much larger. It is, however, our opinion that the mere fact " that Bulwer Lytton's works can now be had by any one for the sum of 11. 11s. Gd." has only to be made more universally known than it is at present, to induce numerous admirers of this
Page 529 - Publishers (who in this undertaking have invested already above £25,000) by their patronage, and encourage them by the success of this, to undertake still more extensively the introduction to the million of the very best literature that the splendid authors of England have already, or may in future produce. To prevent disappointment, all parties are speedily desired to complete their sets.

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