| Ira Jones - Oceania - 1861 - 390 pages
...picture of events.— Quarterly Review (London! Jan., 1861. ' ' * Fertile as the present age has beea in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth — Edinburgh Quarterly Review, Jan.,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Representative government and representation - 1862 - 376 pages
...Critical Notices. His living and truthful picture of events — Quarterly Review (London), Jan.. 1861. Fertile as the present age has been in historical...highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qnalities of interest, accuracy, and truth. — Edinburgh Quarterly Review, Jan.,... | |
| Francis Lieber - Battles - 1862 - 436 pages
...Critical Notices. His liYing and truthful picture of events.— Quarterly Review (London), Jan1861. Fertile as the present age has been in historical...highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth—Edinburgh Quarterly Review^ Jan.,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...Critical Notices. His living and truthful picture of events.— Quarterly Review (London), Jan., 1861. Fertile as the present age has been in historical...highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth. — Edinburgh Quarterly Revieuf, Jan.,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 316 pages
...liTing and truthful picture of events Quarterly Review (London), Jin, 1861. Fertile as the present agj has been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth—Edinburgh Quarterly Revieic, Jan.,... | |
| George Washington Bethune - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 278 pages
...liting and truthful picture of events.— Quarterly Review (London), Jan1861. Fertile as the present ag^ has been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth. — Edinburgh Quarterly Review, Jan.,... | |
| Talbot Wilson Chambers - Legislators - 1863 - 306 pages
...truthful picture of events.— Q uarterlij Review (London), Jan., 1861. Fertile as the present ag3 has been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth. — Edinburgh Quarterly Review, Jan.,... | |
| Sir Rutherford Alcock - Japan - 1863 - 458 pages
...and truthful picture of events.— Quarterly Review (London), Jan , 1861. Fertile as the present ags has been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth Edinburgh Quarterly Jtevieir, Jan.,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1863 - 736 pages
...commend the hearty English spirit in which the book is written; and fertile as the present age lias been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth.' — Edinburgh Review. ' We give a... | |
| Catharine Esther Beecher - Religious education - 1864 - 436 pages
...liTing and truthful picture of events. — Quarterly Review (London), Jan., Fertile as the present agj has been in historical works of the highest merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth Edinburgh Quarterly Review, Jan., 1861.... | |
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