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.