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THE WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
_LARGE-PAPER EDITION. Limited to 250 copies. 4 vols. 8vo, $16.00, net._
This work forms the beginning of Mr. Fiske's history of America. It is, perhaps, the most important single portion yet completed by him, and gives the results of vast research.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The reader may turn to these volumes with full a.s.surance of faith for a fresh rehearsal of the old facts, which no time can stale, and for new views of those old facts, according to the larger framework of ideas in which they can now be set by the master of a captivating style and an expert in historical philosophy.--_New York Evening Post_.
The freshness and vivid interest of the narrative and the comprehensive generalization which springs naturally from the author's plan of a large work on American history, of which the two volumes now published are no more than a third or a fourth part, make it a book of new and permanent interest.--_Springfield Republican_.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
If this admirable volume (Fiske's ”Civil Government”) can be fairly taught to our rising generation, the future, we believe, will show that Mr. Fiske has never done more useful work than in its preparation.--_The Congregationalist_ (Boston).
THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY. 1783-1789.
The author combines in an unusual degree the impartiality of the trained scholar with the fervor of the interested narrator.... The volume should be in every library in the land.--_The Congregationalist_ (Boston).
An admirable book.... Mr. Fiske has a great talent for making history interesting to the general reader.--_New York Times_.
THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND;
It deals with the early colonial history of New England in the entertaining and vivid style which has marked all of Mr. Fiske's writings on American history, and it is distinguished, like them, by its aggressive patriotism and its justice to all parties in controversy....
The whole book is novel and fresh in treatment, philosophical and wise, and will not be laid down till one has read the last page, and remains impatient for what is still to come.--_Boston Post_.
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
John Fiske's ”War of Independence” is a miracle.... A book brilliant and effective beyond measure.... It is a statement that every child can comprehend, but that only a man of consummate genius could have written.--Mrs. CAROLINE H. DALL, _in the Springfield Republican_.