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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 



From the Discovery of the American Continent. 



In Three Volumes, Octavo. Ninth Edition. 



BY GEORGE BANCROFT. 



The First Part of this work, embracing the History of the Coloniza- 

 tion of the United States, is now completed. It forms Three Volumes, 

 Octavo, and contains the account, not only of the Settlement of the Thirteen 

 Original States, but of the Spanish Settlements in Florida, and of the French 

 Discovery and Colonization of Michigan and Wisconsin ; the Discovery of the 

 Mississippi, the Colonization of Illinois and Indiana, of Mississippi and Louisiana, 

 and the attempts at Colonizing Texas, by La Salle. The topics most interesting 

 to the people of the great Valley of the Mississippi, are delineated more fully 

 than in any American work, and from original sources. 



The book is printed in the best style, equal to that of the London press, and 

 is richly illustrated by maps, sketches, and engravings, particularly by heads of 

 the Winthrops, of Smith, of William renn, and Franklin 5 fac-similes of the first 

 maps of the Valley of the Mississippi, and of Lake Superior, with sketches illus- 

 trating Indian life and appearance. 



This work has been favorably noticed in some of the best journals of Germany 

 and England, and in the chief American periodicals. 



ct We know few modern historic works, in which the author has reached so high an 

 elevation at once as an historical inquirer and an historical writer. The great conscien- 

 tiousness with which he refers to his authorities, and his careful criticism, give the most 

 decisive proofs of his comprehensive studies. He has founded his narrative on contempo- 

 rary documents, yet without neglecting works of later times, and of other countries. His 

 narrative is every where worthy of the subject. The reader is always instructed, often 

 more deeply interested than by novels or romances. The love of country is the muse 

 which inspires the author; but this inspiration is that of the severe historian, which springs 

 from the heart." — Professor Heeren. 



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ANCIENT GREECE. 



From the German of ARNOLD H. L. HEEREN. 



BY GEORGE BANCROFT. 



Second American Edition. 



This translation has recently been introduced into Harvard College , as a text- 

 book for the class in History. Two or three editions of it have been printed in 

 England, two of them at Oxford, where the work is much used. 



11 Few writers have better succeeded than Mr. Heeren in treating questions of antiquity 

 with the spirit of modern philosophical criticism. He is a prudent mediator between the 

 bold speculations of some of his countrymen, and the credulous learning of the lust century. 

 * * * Mr. Heeren holds a place in the front rank of the professors at Gottingen, is one 

 of the most esteemed German writers of the present day, is a correspondent of the Na- 

 tional Institute of France, and worthy of the fame which he enjoys at home and abroad.'* 

 — North American Review, written by Edward Everett. 



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MEMOIR of the LIFE OF JOSIAH QJJINCY, JR. 



Of Massachusetts. 

 By his Son, JOSIAH QUINCY. 



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