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"The brilliant comment of a liberal Englishman on the history and institutions of this country is of the utmost value to Americans, who will not be repelled by its occasional harshness, by its occasional injustice, but who will be materially helped to a juster conception of the results of American civilization, and will be immensely entertained and interested by the vivacity and freshness with which the comments are made."—The Outlook.

"Of this last production from the pen of Mr. Smith, a reader will not hesitate to speak his judgment in the highest terms of respect and commendation. Its three hundred of open pages, of terse and often brilliant and epigrammatic matter, make it a marvellous condensation of historical narrative and of philosophic comment on principles, men, events, and incidents. Its judgment upon our politicians, statesmen, military leaders, orators, and presidents, are sometimes keen, but always intelligent, impartial, and discriminating."—Boston Evening Transcript.

"His work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. … Without exaggeration it may be called the most considerable and gratifying tribute that has yet been bestowed upon us by an Englishman, and perhaps by even England herself. … One despairs in an attempt to give, in a single newspaper article, an adequate account of a work so infused with knowledge and sparkling with suggestion. … Every thoughtful American will read it and will long hold in grateful remembrance its author's name."—The New York Times.

M. Ostrogorski's work is a monument of scholarship and painstaking research, and a treasury of information of political conditions in Britain and in America that is alike amazing and invaluable. The book is one that every publicist, every one desirous of acquainting himself with the growth and development of political conditions in the two great Anglo-speaking nations of the world, should possess, for he cannot afford to remain in ignorance of this master work."—.