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 INDIA, AMERICA, AND THE COLONIES.

A Manual of Indian History, Geography, and Finance.

"A succinct history of the American quarrel, with an estimate of its probable cause and proximate issue. To the information Mr. Ellison has already acquired, he has added a faculty of inference equal to the occasion, and such a rational estimate of the work required of him, that he has compiled a convenient book of reference, available in some other respects to the journalist and politician."—Times.

"Mr. Olmsted gives his readers a wealth of facts conveyed in a long stream of anecdotes, the exquisite humour of many of them making parts of his book as pleasant to read as a novel of the first class."—Athenæum.

"This book is a compendious recast of Mr. Olmsted's invaluable volumes on the Slave States; volumes full of acute, pithy, and significant delineations, which bear in every line the stamp of an honest and unexaggerating, but close and clear-sighted study of those States. We know of no book in which significant but complex social facts are so fairly, minutely, and intelligently photographed; in which there is so great intrinsic evidence of impartiality; in which all the evidence given is at once so minute and so essential; and the inferences deduced so practical, broad, and impressive."—Spectator.

"A most carefullu digested and well-written Constitutional History of the great Federal Republic of America."—Examiner.

"Mr. Curtis writes with dignity and vigour, and his work will be one of permanent interest."—Athenæum.