. The Argonaut . , PUBLISHERS 410 THE ARGONAUT November 20, 1905. A HISTORY AND AN ESSAY. England and Holland of the late Dr. Henry M. Dexter was an en-thusiast of no common order for all mattersrelating to the Mayflower. At the time ofhis death, he was elaborating this vast work,which is now published under the direction ofhis son and heir, Morton Dexter. Tremend-ously exhaustive, it is full of color and life,and written in a subdued style without anyhigh-sounding rhetoric. Hosts of facts are ar-rayed to make clear the remotest origin ofthe New England settlement. The end of theb
. The Argonaut . , PUBLISHERS 410 THE ARGONAUT November 20, 1905. A HISTORY AND AN ESSAY. England and Holland of the late Dr. Henry M. Dexter was an en-thusiast of no common order for all mattersrelating to the Mayflower. At the time ofhis death, he was elaborating this vast work,which is now published under the direction ofhis son and heir, Morton Dexter. Tremend-ously exhaustive, it is full of color and life,and written in a subdued style without anyhigh-sounding rhetoric. Hosts of facts are ar-rayed to make clear the remotest origin ofthe New England settlement. The end of thebook leaves us with Pastor John Robinsonwatching the Mayflower disappear into thewest. Scrooby Manor, in Notts. England, isdescribed with details, the accumulation ofwhich must have been a labor of love. It wasthere that William Brewster resided, andkept up the struggle for freedom of con-science against the Established Church- Thehistory of Scrooby Manor house is carriedback as. far as the time when it was one of. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, author of Wallaces Russia. Published by Henry Holt & Co. English life, social and political, which sur-rounded our fathers, is here etched for us inlanguage that is vivid and conclusive, withevidence of laborious research. Severalphotographs, maps, and drawings are asfinishing touches to the whole. The volumeis very evenly divided between the his-tory of the Pilgrims in England and thesubsequent settlement in Holland, whichwas the prelude to New England. Xoindividual Pilgrim is neglected—they allcome before us complete with their families ;the residences of the archbishops of York.
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