and people to which it refers.--_N. Y. Courier and Enquirer._

This work at once places the author on the list of American historians
which has been so signally illustrated by the names of Irving,
Prescott, Bancroft, and Hildreth.--_Boston Times._

The work is a noble one, and a most desirable acquisition to our
historical literature.--_Mobile Advertiser._

Such a work is an honor to its author, to his country, and to the age
in which it was written.--_Ohio Farmer._

_Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, New York._

HARPER & BROTHERS will send the above Work by Mail postage paid (for
any distance in the United States under 3000 miles), on receipt of the
Money.

_Mr. Motley, the American historian of the United Netherlands--we owe
him English homage._--LONDON TIMES.

"_As interesting as a romance, and as reliable as a proposition of
Euclid._"

History of The United Netherlands.

FROM THE DEATH OF WILLIAM THE SILENT TO THE SYNOD OF DORT. WITH A FULL
VIEW OF THE ENGLISH-DUTCH STRUGGLE AGAINST SPAIN, AND OF THE ORIGIN
AND DESTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH ARMADA.

BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., D.C.L.,

Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, Author of "The Rise
of the Dutch Republic."

With Portraits and Map.

2 vols. 8vo, Muslin, $6 00.

_Critical Notices._

His living and truthful picture of events.--_Quarterly Review_
(London), Jan., 1861.

Fertile as the present age has been in historical works of the highest
merit, none of them can be ranked above these volumes in the grand
qualities of interest, accuracy, and truth.--_Edinburgh Quarterly
Review_, Jan., 1861.

This noble work.--_Westminster Review_ (London).

One of the most fascinating as well as important histories of the
century.--_Cor. N. Y. Evening Post._

The careful study of these volumes will infallibly afford a feast both
rich and rare.--_Baltimore Republican._

Already takes a rank among standard works of history.--_London
Critic._

Mr. Motley's prose epic.--_London Spectator._

Its pages are pregnant with instruction.--_London Literary Gazette._

We may profit by almost every page of his narrative. All the topics
which agitate us now are more or less vividly presented in the History
of the United Netherlands.--_New York Times._

Bears on every page marks of the same vigorous mind that produced "The
Rise of the Dutch Republic;" but the new work is riper, mellower, and
though equally racy of the so