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VOLUME V OF THE 



History of the People «* 

 •» of the United States. 



By Prof. JOHN BACH McMASTEB. 



8vo. Cloth, with Maps and Index, $2.50. 



IN his fifth volume Professor McMaster deals with a period of our 

 history between 1821 and 1830, which in many of its phases 

 has received but scant attention. The close of Monroe's term, the 

 administration of John Quincy Adams, and the stormy opening 

 years of Jackson, form an epoch of peculiar interest in view of the 

 development of the democratic spirit, the manifestations of a new 

 interest in social problems, the experiments in banking and finance, 

 the improvements in the conditions of city life, the changing rela- 

 tions between the East and West, and the author's full and striking 

 presentation of the literary activity of the country at that time. 



Press comments on previous t>oliimes. 



"A history sui generis which has made and will keep its own place in our 

 literature." — New York Evening Post. 



" No reader will fail to be impressed by the huge mass of materials in the 

 diverse forms of pamphlets, contemporary newspapers, and published or unpub- 

 lished letters, which has been ransacked, winnowed, weighed, and condensed 

 by the indefatigable weaver of this narrative." — New York Sun. 



" Professor McMaster's style is vigorous, and his treatment candid and im- 

 partial." — New York Tribune. 



" He is a student, and his history abounds in evidences of original research 

 in quarters not before discovered by the historian." — Chicago Tribune. 



" Professor McMaster is, besides being a clear and concise narrator of polit- 

 ical events, a graphic describer of popular character and customs." — Brooklyn 

 Daily Eagle. 



" There is not a page in the volume that can not be read with eager interest ; 

 and when the work shall have been completed there can be but little doubt 

 that it will take its place among our foremost standard classics in its kind." — 

 Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. 



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