With numerous illustrations, portraits, and fac-similes. Crown
octavo. Cloth, $2.00. Uniform with “THE TRUE GEORGE WASHINGTON.”
“Mr. Fisher has done a service to American literature and history which
is not to be measured alone by the facts supplied in his book. There is
a sentimental value to his study, which resides in its effect upon the
public mind in making us realize the true proportions of one of our few
great men. Washington and Franklin are the true figures in our early
history to which the verdict of the world has given lasting fame. Paul
Leicester Ford has changed Washington from a myth into a human being.
Mr. Fisher has done the same for Franklin. Of the two heroes Washington
was the less understood. But the popular conception of Franklin in its
way was also far from the truth. The result of Mr. Fisher’s analysis of
Franklin will be to make him more distinctly a great American than ever
he was to us before. Mr. Fisher evidently has made a careful study of
Franklin; first, as he reveals himself in his own writings and in his
life; and, secondly, as his biographers and those who were contemporary
with him have estimated him. He destroys some popular delusions concerning
him, and, on the other hand, brings out more clearly and forcibly than
heretofore the greatness of certain qualities of his character which have
been rather lost sight of or neglected. Mr. Fisher has done his work with
the painstaking care and skill that have made his various other books
along historical lines of recognized merit. He writes clearly, frankly,
and without prejudice.”--_Philadelphia Evening Bulletin._