Quiet and fair in tone; condensed to the last point, and still perfectly clear; written in such pure English that the youngest reader can understand, yet free from an affectation of baby talk, which is often considered indispensable in children’s books—the “Young Folks’ History of the United States” makes a refreshing contrast to the kind of school book with which Abbott and Loomis, and men of their stamp have inundated the country.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

Already United States mails are regularly carried through the air from the Atlantic to the Golden Gate.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson

There was easy access from without, by a door opening on a narrow winding walk that led through thick shrubberies into the stables, so that the Squires were enabled to welcome in their sanctum, unobserved, such modest and retiring comrades as, from the state of their apparel or of their nerves, did not feel equal to the terrors of the grand entrance.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence