BY THE Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, D.C.L., AUTHOR OF "THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE"; M.P. FOR Aberdeen. Third Edition, Revised Throughout. Large 12mo. $4.00, net. In Two Volumes. PRESS NOTICES. "His work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it.... Without exaggeration it may be called the most considerable and gratifying tribute that has yet been bestowed upon us by an Englishman, and perhaps by even England herself. . . One despairs in an attempt to give, in a single newspaper article, an adequate account of a work so infused with knowledge and sparkling with suggestion.. Every thoughtful American will read it and will long hold in grateful remembrance its author's name." – The New York Times. 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"The history of the United States is now told for us in the more attractive form and with all the advantages of the marvellous power of condensation and the brilliance and picturesqueness of style which characterize Mr. Goldwin Smith's writing. The pages are filled with sentences which stimulate thought, with happy phrases, with vivid pictures of men and of situations drawn with a few bold strokes... A volume of absorbing interest, worthy to be ranked with the best work of a great master of the English language."— The Toronto Globe. "The author has, as those who know him do not need to be told, a style which is nothing less than fascinating, and a delightful literary flavor pervades all his work. The book is, of course, a marvel of condensation. Considered merely as a literary composition it would command high praise. 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