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General Lee.
By General FITZHUGH LEE.
General Hanc.o.c.k.
By General FRANCIS A. WALKER.
General Sheridan.
By General HENRY E. DAVIES.
Each, 12mo, cloth, with Portrait and Maps, $1.50.
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 2 & 5 Bond St.
D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
_HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES_, from the Revolution to the Civil War. By JOHN BACH MCMASTER. To be completed in five volumes. Vols. I, II, and III now ready. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, $2.50 each.
[Ill.u.s.tration: JOHN BACH MCMASTER.]
In the course of this narrative much is written of wars, conspiracies, and rebellions; of Presidents, of Congresses, of emba.s.sies, of treaties, of the ambition of political leaders, and of the rise of great parties in the nation. Yet the history of the people is the chief theme. At every stage of the splendid progress which separates the America of Was.h.i.+ngton and Adams from the America in which we live, it has been the author's purpose to describe the dress, the occupations, the amus.e.m.e.nts, the literary canons of the times; to note the changes of manners and morals; to trace the growth of that humane spirit which abolished punishment for debt, and reformed the discipline of prisons and of jails; to recount the manifold improvements which, in a thousand ways, have multiplied the conveniences of life and ministered to the happiness of our race; to describe the rise and progress of that long series of mechanical inventions and discoveries which is now the admiration of the world, and our just pride and boast; to tell how, under the benign influence of liberty and peace, there sprang up, in the course of a single century, a prosperity unparalleled in the annals of human affairs.
"The pledge given by Mr. McMaster, that 'the history of the people shall be the chief theme,' is punctiliously and satisfactorily fulfilled. He carries out his promise in a complete, vivid, and delightful way. We should add that the literary execution of the work is worthy of the indefatigable industry and unceasing vigilance with which the stores of historical material have been acc.u.mulated, weighed, and sifted. The cardinal qualities of style, lucidity, animation, and energy, are everywhere present. Seldom indeed has a book in which matter of substantial value has been so happily united to attractiveness of form been offered by an American author to his fellow-citizens."--_New York Sun._
"To recount the marvelous progress of the American people, to describe their life, their literature, their occupations, their amus.e.m.e.nts, is Mr. McMaster's object. His theme is an important one, and we congratulate him on his success. It has rarely been our province to notice a book with so many excellences and so few defects."--_New York Herald._
"Mr. McMaster at once shows his grasp of the various themes and his special capacity as a historian of the people. His aim is high, but he hits the mark."--_New York Journal of Commerce._
" ... The author's pages abound, too, with ill.u.s.trations of the best kind of historical work, that of unearthing hidden sources of information and employing them, not after the modern style of historical writing, in a mere report, but with the true artistic method, in a well-digested narrative.... If Mr. McMaster finishes his work in the spirit and with the thoroughness and skill with which it has begun, it will take its place among the cla.s.sics of American literature."--_Christian Union._
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.
_ABRAHAM LINCOLN: The True Story of a Great Life_. By WILLIAM H.
HERNDON and JESSE W. WEIK. With numerous Ill.u.s.trations. New and revised edition, with an introduction by HORACE WHITE. In two volumes.
12mo. Cloth, $3.00.
This is probably the most intimate life of Lincoln ever written. The book, by Lincoln's law-partner, William H. Herndon, and his friend Jesse W. Weik, shows us Lincoln the man. It is a true picture of his surroundings and influences and acts. It is not an attempt to construct a political history, with Lincoln often in the background, nor is it an effort to apotheosize the American who stands first in our history next to Was.h.i.+ngton. The writers knew Lincoln intimately.
Their book is the result of unreserved a.s.sociation. There is no attempt to portray the man as other than he really was, and on this account their frank testimony must be accepted, and their biography must take permanent rank as the best and most illuminating study of Lincoln's character and personality. Their story, simply told, relieved by characteristic anecdotes, and vivid with local color, will be found a fascinating work.
"Truly, they who wish to know Lincoln as he really was must read the biography of him written by his friend and law-partner, W.H.
Herndon. This book was imperatively needed to brush aside the rank growth of myth and legend which was threatening to hide the real lineaments of Lincoln from the eyes of posterity. On one pretext or another, but usually upon the plea that he was the central figure of a great historical picture, most of his self-appointed biographers have, by suppressing a part of the truth and magnifying or embellis.h.i.+ng the rest, produced portraits which those of Lincoln's contemporaries who knew him best are scarcely able to recognize.
There is, on the other hand, no doubt about the faithfulness of Mr.
Herndon's delineation. The marks of unflinching veracity are patent in every line."--_New York Sun._
"Among the books which ought most emphatically to have been written must be cla.s.sed 'Herndon's Lincoln,'"--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"The author has his own notion of what a biography should be, and it is simple enough. The story should tell all, plainly and even bluntly. Mr. Herndon is naturally a very direct writer, and he has been industrious in gathering material. Whether an incident happened before or behind the scenes, is all the same to him. He gives it without artifice or apology. He describes the life of his friend Lincoln just as he saw it."--_Cincinnati Commercial Gazette._
"A remarkable piece of literary achievement--remarkable alike for its fidelity to facts, its fullness of details, its constructive skill, and its literary charm."--_New York Times._
"It will always remain the authentic life of Abraham Lincoln,"--_Chicago Herald._
"The book is a valuable depository of anecdotes, innumerable and characteristic. It has every claim to the proud coast of being the 'true story of a great life.'"--_Philadelphia Ledger._
"Will be accepted as the best biography yet written of the great President."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"Mr. White claims that, as a portraiture of the man Lincoln, Mr.
Herndon's work 'will never be surpa.s.sed.' Certainly it has never been equaled yet, and this new edition is all that could be desired."--_New York Observer._
"The three portraits of Lincoln are the best that exist; and not the least characteristic of these, the Lincoln of the Douglas debates, has never before been engraved.... Herndon's narrative gives, as nothing else is likely to give, the material from which we may form a true picture of the man from infancy to maturity,"--_The Nation._
_APPLETONS' CYCLOPaeDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY_. Complete in six volumes, royal 8vo, containing about 800 pages each. With sixty-one fine steel portraits and some two thousand smaller vignette portraits and views of birthplaces, residences, statues, etc.
APPLETONS' CYCLOPaeDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, edited by General JAMES GRANT WILSON, President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and Professor JOHN FISKE, formerly of Harvard University, a.s.sisted by over two hundred special contributors, contains a biographical sketch of every person eminent in American civil and military history, in law and politics, in divinity, in literature and art, in science and in invention. Its plan embraces all the countries of North and South America, and includes distinguished persons born abroad, but related to American history. As events are always connected with persons, it affords a complete compendium of American history in every branch of human achievement. An exhaustive topical and a.n.a.lytical Index enables the reader to follow the history of any subject with great readiness.
"It is the most complete work that exists on the subject. The tone and guiding spirit of the book are certainly very fair, and show a mind bent on a discriminate, just, and proper treatment of its subject."--_From the_ Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT.
"The portraits are remarkably good. To anyone interested in American history or literature, the Cyclopaedia will be indispensable."--_From the_ Hon. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
"The selection of names seems to be liberal and just. The portraits, so far as I can judge, are faithful, and the biographies trustworthy."--_From_ NOAH PORTER, D.D., LL.D., _ex-President of Yale College_.
"A most valuable and interesting work."--_From the_ Hon. WM. E.
GLADSTONE.
"I have examined it with great interest and great gratification. It is a n.o.ble work, and does enviable credit to its editors and publishers."--_From the_ Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
"I have carefully examined 'Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography,' and do not hesitate to commend it to favor. It is admirably adapted to use in the family and the schools, and is so cheap as to come within the reach of all cla.s.ses of readers and students."--_From_ J.B. FORAKER, _ex-Governor of Ohio_.
"This book of American biography has come to me with a most unusual charm. It sets before us the faces of great Americans, both men and women, and gives us a perspective view of their lives. Where so many n.o.ble and great have lived and wrought, one is encouraged to believe the soil from which they sprang, the air they breathed, and the sky over their heads, to be the best this world affords, and one says, 'Thank G.o.d, I also am an American!' We have many books of biography, but I have seen none so ample, so clear-cut, and breathing so strongly the best spirit of our native land. No young man or woman can fail to find among these ample pages some model worthy of imitation."--_From_ FRANCES E. WILLARD, _President N.W.C.T.U._
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"Every day's use of this admirable work confirms me in regard to its comprehensiveness and accuracy."--_From_ CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
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