Front matter (continued 2)
Reading edition
CHARLES H. SERGEL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO.
HISTORY OF PERU,
by Clements R. Markham,
C.B., F.R.S., F.S.A., President Hakluyt Society, President Royal Geographical Society, and author of “Cuzco and Lima,” “Peru and India,” etc.
8vo, cloth, with maps and illustrations, $2.50.
The highest authority on Peruvian history.—The Critic.
Mr. Markham has done his work well, and with ardent love for his subject. The country is a favorite one with him, and has furnished him with matter for three monographs before the present history. In a necessarily limited space he has given the leading facts, and taken a comprehensive view from the earliest time, down almost to the current year. Not the least interesting portions are the brief but strongly individual sketches of some of the remarkable men who have figured in the annals of Peru. In a few virile paragraphs he presents the more famous generals, viceroys, presidents and patriots. The book is well equipped with maps, abounds with pictures, and has an appendix rich in its statistics and important documents.—The Literary World.
Mr. Markham is thoroughly at home with his subject. He possesses a strong, graphic style eminently suited to it, and the amount of information that he has managed to crowd into the space at his disposal is simply marvelous.—New Orleans Picayune.
CHARLES H. SERGEL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO.
HISTORY OF CHILE,
by Anson Uriel Hancock,
Author of “Old Abraham Jackson,” “Coitlan, A Tale of the Inca World,” etc.
8vo, Cloth, with map and illustrations, $2.50
It has been Mr. Hancock’s endeavour to give a “complete short history and picture of Chile in a single volume.” We may congratulate him on having achieved his design. Mr. Hancock’s virtues are those of painstaking chronicler. And he has those virtues in full quantity. Not that the author is without dramatic power. The concluding chapters of this valuable book on the ethnology, geology, agriculture, communications, and resources of Chile are of great interest.—London Saturday Review.
Within the compass of less than 500 octavo pages the author gives a succinct and rapid narrative of the history of Chile, its institutions, the character of its people, and its present conditions, resources and outlook. He has made a painstaking examination of authorities, and has preserved a due sense of proportion.—Boston Journal.
It is on the period between the years 1830 and 1880, however, that the interest of the reader will concentrate itself, and recognizing this fact Mr. Hancock has spared no pains in rendering this part of the work the most brilliant and authentic. It is in every respect a thoroughly readable and accurate work, dealing with the history of a country which promises to be of much greater importance among the nations of the earth.—Philadelphia Item.
CHARLES H. SERGEL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO.