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Professor McMaster's "History of the People of the United States" is considered a scholarly and picturesque work. Professor Lounsbury has written, in his "Cooper," one of the best of modern biographies. Charles Dudley Warner is distinguished by the great geniality and humor of his writings, alternately quaint, delicate, and pungent.
A man was speaking of Glenister. Excitement thrilled his voice. "I never saw anything like it since McMaster's Night in Virginia City, thirteen years ago. He's RIGHT." "Well, perhaps so," the other replied, doubtfully, "but I don't care to back you. I never 'staked' a man in my life." "Then LEND me the money. I'll pay it back in an hour, but for Heaven's sake be quick.
T. C. Smith's Parties and Slavery, in American Nation series , and McMaster's History of the United States, vol. VIII, are very valuable. But the Census Reports of 1850 and 1860; J. E. B. DeBow's Industrial Resources of the South and West ; and U.S. Senate Executive Documents, no. 38, part 1, 52d Cong., 1st Sess., supply the needful statistics on population, crops, manufactures, and finance.
As an illustration, take the following extract from the first page of McMaster's Child's History of the United States, often used with ten-year-old pupils. Four hundred and fifty years ago the people of western Europe were getting silks, perfumes, shawls, ivory, spices, and jewels from southeastern Asia, then called the Indies.
Henry Cabot Lodge, and leaves little more to be said; Marshall's Washington has long been a standard; Botta's History of the Revolutionary War; Bancroft's United States; McMaster's History of the American People. In connection read the standard lives of Franklin, John Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay, Marshall, La Fayette, and Greene, with Washington's writings.
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1798-1835, p. 353. Atlantic Monthly, December, 1883, p. 773. For further detail, see McMaster's History of the United States, vol. i. p. 62. Philosophy of Manufactures, by Andrew Ure, M.D., p. 13.
J. B. McMaster's History of the United States, vol. IV, chap. XXXIII, and vol. V, chap. XLV; T. H. Clay's Henry Clay, in American Crises biographies, Theodore Roosevelt's Life of Thomas H. Benton, in American Statesmen series, and Bassett's Life of Andrew Jackson, already cited, give the principal facts about their subjects.
As a result of this series of French Decrees and British Orders in Council, the English took 194 of our ships, and the French almost as many. III., Chap. 16; Vol. IV., Chaps. 4, 5, and 6; McMaster's History, Vol. Jefferson's Policy; Non-importation Act.% The policy by which Jefferson proposed to meet this emergency consisted of three parts: 1.
As to the story of Jefferson riding alone to the Capitol and tying his horse to the fence, see Adams's History, Vol. I, pp. 196-199; McMaster's History, Vol. The Annual Message.% While Washington and Adams were presidents, it was their custom when Congress met each year to go in state to the House of Representatives, and in the presence of the House and Senate read a speech.
The story of the Galway Bag Factory may serve as a pendant to the story of Mr. McMaster's effort to benefit the Catholic peasantry of the counties of Galway and Donegal. The concern had stopped for lack of funds, and Father Peter Dooley went round the town endeavouring to induce people to take shares in the concern, in order that the poor folks of the district might have employment.
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