OF

SMITH'S ANCIENT HISTORY.

(FOR TERMS SEE PAGE 1.)

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"His points of transition are well chosen, and his wide and various panorama of principalities, powers, and dominions, clearly arranged. He has availed himself liberally of the new lights, thrown by recent discovery and philology, upon the annals of the East, and in all that relates to the Oriental empires and African kingdoms or republics (if, indeed, that term can be applied to the timocratic, or perhaps ploutocratic Carthage) his work is far in advance of any Ancient History in our language."

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"In relating not only all the leading events of the epochs here referred to, but also the remarkable incidents of the periods between the respective epochs, one great and rare power was required-that of condensation. There are cases in which an historian not only has superabundance of materials, but he is bound to use them all. Such a case has existed here; and Mr. Smith has been equal to its exigencies. Mr. Smith's lucidity of description is enhanced by excellent maps and charts, whereby the student will all the more readily comprehend the relations of nations and the movements on a field of battle."

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"The style is admirable, clear, expressive, animated, and often singularly forcible and happy. In his description of 'decisive battles' Mr. Smith shows the same talent or military engineering which is so conspicuous in the pages of Dr. Arnold, and the human interest as well as the ethical value of the work is sustained throughout by its just and noble sympathies. In a day when literature is so full of insinuated doubt and outspoken unbelief, we cannot too cordially hail a contribution to historic authorship so thoroughly imbued with Christian faith and feeling, so devoutly observant of the hand of God, and so fitted to impress with the continual presence and overruling in human affairs of Him who is wise in counsel and excellent in working.'

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"It is written in a picturesque and graphic style, and is undoubtedly not open to the charge so frequently brought against works of this class, of being dull reading.

"It contains the results of the extensive and important researches which have been made since Rollin's time, and which have almost revolutionised our knowledge of the history of the Ancient World."

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