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McMaster's entertaining work on the History of the People of the United States appeared just three years ago this summer, and the lively interest which it then aroused gave promise of the cordial welcome that would be generally extended to future volumes of the same work. The first volume closed with the year 1790.
The events of the period covered in this volume are described with some fullness in all of the general American histories. Of these, two are especially noteworthy for literary quality and other elements of popular interest: Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People, 5 vols. , and John B. McMaster's History of the People of the United States, 8 vols.
McMaster's companions did not wait for his return from Oxford, but when the packet sailed for Antwerp, which was Sunday, the 30th of August, they went down to Folkestone and took passage. They arrived the following morning, and, armed with a letter from Father Rumpler to a Madame Marchand, a warm friend of the congregation, they went straight to the nearest Church to inquire the way to her house.
C. H. Van Tyne's Letters of Daniel Webster supplies information about Webster which is lacking in the older Works by Everett or F. Webster . H. C. Lodge's Daniel Webster, in American Statesmen series and J. B. McMaster's Daniel Webster are the standard biographies.
"History of Louisiana," Charles Gayarre. New Orleans, Hansell & Bros., Ltd., 1903, vol. III, p. 478. Ibid., p. 485. Ibid., p. 486. McMaster's "History of the American People." Vol. VIII, p. 339. Ibid., p. 339. A New World Power Youngest among the great nations, the United States holds a position of immense world power.
For continuations, McMaster's History of the People of the United States covers the period from 1789 to 1824, and is being continued. James Schouler has written a History of the United States from 1789 to 1861, in five volumes, while J. F. Rhodes ably covers the years 1850 to the Civil War with a much more copious narrative.
To return the fire was impossible, for only a few of the guns of the Chesapeake were mounted. At last one was discharged, and as by that time three men had been killed and eighteen wounded, Commander Barron of the Chesapeake surrendered. Four men then were taken from her deck. Three were Americans. One was an Englishman, and he was hanged for desertion. I., pp. 305-308; McMaster's History, Vol.
During the past month four distinct works, namely, the fifth volume of Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States, the third of Schouler's History of the United States, the second of McMaster's History of the People of the United States, and also a new volume of Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of the Pacific States, have been published, and are destined, no doubt, to take their places as "standards."
McMaster's two volumes form a very valuable and welcome contribution to our national literature. It was a felicitous thought which prompted him to enter this peculiar field, and to gather up the important facts which writers on political history have generally avoided. So thoroughly and so admirably has Mr.
They sought McMaster's brigantine, the Polly Perkins, that lies waiting for the tide. 'Twas, as you say, a young gentleman, and with him was a young woman. I misdoubt the lady was ill." "Get me a boat!" cried the new-comer. "A sovereign, five sovereigns, ten sovereigns, a hundred but that ship must not weigh anchor until I board her, do you hear!"
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