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...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
SINCE Prescott first published his history, the conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortez has ranked with the victories of Lord Clive in India as one of the most amazing and courageous of human exploits, by which vast territories, riches, and populations have been subjugated to the iron will of a single man. Cortez emerges from the past as a typical Renaissance captain, like the condottiere of Italy, only transplanted into the romantic regions of the New World. Always the hardy soldier, daring and resourceful, he never shirked from deception, cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only...
...lose interest and fascination on that account among popular readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement...
...bowed down by the woes of the universe at the age of five: nor are most normal people buoyed up by the unromantic hope that they may learn more mathematics; but many are "weary of the earth," and some are "laden with their sins." For these "The Conquest of Happiness" was written. It is not profound or ritualistic dogma; it is not a conquest built upon mechanical logic; it is the philosophy of a happy man expounded for everyman. In the book there are many truisms and many time worn panaceas for the jaded spirit, but they are set forth...
...tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...