Présentation de l'éditeur
No local history has been published in A merica, which has been more highly praised by the public journals, or more eagerly read, than the History of Lynn in the first edition. It was one great means of inducing that taste for historical reading, which has eventuated in the production of so many town histories, and other works of a more extensive nature. A few extracts from these notices are here given. History of Jjijnn. We have just risen from the perusal of a work under this title, from the press of Mr. John H. Eastburn. The author isM r. A lonzo Lewis, who compiled and published the very handsome Map of Lynn and Nahant, we not long since had occasion to notice. He is a gentleman of enviable talents, uniting the rarely combined qualities of a brilliant fancy with a love of philosophical inquiry and deep research. Traveller. Mr. Lewis is favorably known as a poet of chaste and delicate fancy, and his remarks in the pages before us show an alertness to the beautiful highly creditable to him as a writer. Statesman. The writer has not confined himself to the dry details of his subject, but has favored us with glimpses of the domestic and literary occupations of our ancestors. These town histories will be of great service to the future historian, who will look to them as the principal sources from which his information is to be derived. A dvertiser. The Introduction is one of the most felicitous and best written productions which I have ever seen annexed to any work of the kind. My love and esteem for the author of such sentiments have been much increased since I read it, which has been more than once. The History is all that could be expected or even desired. John Farmer. The author, A lonzo Lewis, Esq., has given a mass of interesting facts and occurrences of olden time, furnishing a curious compendium, not only to antiquaries and the immediate descendants o
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