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Show K MERITOEIOUS HISTORY. Uttj; history of the United States. By Wll-C Wll-C Doub, "With maps, portraits. VtP mfly other Illustrations. The Mac-Klglan Mac-Klglan Company, publishers, .New York. iieiiB admirably written and presented Idjf Is meant to meet nnd obviate tho PJjglsm that the study of history and eitfjs In tho elementary schools Is but llt-'UEtjsldo llt-'UEtjsldo from committing to memory i5?' facts and events. There Is needed fflsthlng of literary grace, continuity of Sgtment of a given subject, and some !jglance to tho real meaning of the ts or acts narrated Tho fullness of merit given In this admirablo hlstor-prcscntatfon hlstor-prcscntatfon to tho subJccL of Govcrn-: Govcrn-: Is especially to be commended. Tho sophicnl dissertation or Judgment ES6ed from time to time on events issjed. Is impartial and well, consld-whllo consld-whllo the Rpcculatlons as to what it have been arc both Ingenious and 3lble. o hlBtory Is taken up with the early raphlcal ideas of olden timo, the CQn-ns CQn-ns at tho tlmo of the discovery of yrlca, the discovery, tho explorations 5g yarloun nationalities of Europe, tho m Jlopmont of tho Now "World, and tho :3 llIn of It among tho British. Span-jl Span-jl nnd Frnch nations. The story is all I 5 wcri told, and In coming into tho ( ta which led up to the Revolution, tho Jmtlon of the Union, apd the suprc- r ot lhUniled States over tho great-.m great-.m intl bct Part of North America, the or Is both accuralo and lucid. Tho g)ry of the LTnilcd Slates proper Is J order.-nnd tills Is given with a t ajhlttoness and due proportion as well W.3 ' ,ts "rescnlttIon of word-pictures of jJ rtant crlucs, surprising where the iyo Is put within the compass of .a sln-aiodorate-slzcd volume. It Is a pralsc-jShy pralsc-jShy work, which cannot fall to bo In demand. |