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The Middle Group of
American Historians

Cloth, 12mo, $2.00

Back in the middle of the last century there was a greater demand for history than today, when there are more historians. Sparks, Bancroft, Prescott and Motley as well as Col. Peter Force, the compiler, brought to their work a patriotic fervour touched with literary genius which made their histories works of literature and themselves distinguished figures in a distinguished past. It is of them and their conception of the historical tradition that Prof. Bassett writes, linking their lives to what they lived to make—the history of their country’s early days.

Because a new conception of the study of history has come into being in recent years, and we now have the product of research in endless archives replacing the fervent eloquence of the nineteenth century historians, Professor Bassett’s book will be welcome as an appreciative study of a worthy fragment of our national growth, a history of history.

A Short History of the United States

By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D.

With maps, 8vo, $2.50

Scholarly in treatment, accurate in detail, adequate in scope, simple in style, sane in proportion, impartial in point of view, interesting in presentation, modern in its emphasis of the economic, social, and intellectual factors—such is the work of Professor Bassett, who is acknowledged to be one of the foremost American historians.

“The book, while it is one of the best textbooks on the subject for higher schools of learning, will be a splendid thing for anyone to keep on their shelves. Dr. Bassett has set down the chief events of our national growth in such a keen, clear way, that one does not have to wade through a mass of verbiage in his search for information on a given subject.”

—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

The Plain Story of American History

By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D.

Illustrated, 12mo, $1.00

In the Elementary History of the United States, Dr. Bassett has treated the significant facts of our national history in a manner that appeals strongly to the interest of young readers and in language that can be readily understood by children even in the intermediate grades. With its story book qualities, the book combines a treatment intended to convey to the child the fundamental facts and becomes a history book that takes the place of a book of juvenile fiction. It presents the facts accurately and effectively with sense and proportion. In this treatment the social life of our people, the economic conditions of the country, and the general welfare of the people as they have appeared, are presented in a most desirable form.

This history for the grammar grades is the advanced history of a two-book series.

The Life of Andrew Jackson

By JOHN SPENCER BASSETT, Ph.D.

With Illustrations. New Edition. Two Volumes in One

Cloth, 8vo, $2.50

This is a one-volume edition of a biography that has, since its first publication several years ago, come to be regarded as one of the most faithful stories of Jackson’s life and of its effect on the nation that has ever been written. Professor Bassett has not slighted Jackson’s failings or his virtues; he has tried to refrain from commenting upon his actions; he has sought to present a true picture of the political manipulations which surrounded Jackson and in which he was an important factor. The volume contributes largely to a clearer realization not only of the character of a great man but also of the complex period in which he lived.

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