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BOOK REVIEWS185 who loves his country and the laws by which he is governed, to . . . kill off this Godforsaken class of humanity." Gladstone's writings are also valuable for their vivid depiction of the "Western way of life." He describes in some detail both rural and urban settings, juxtaposing in each the rough life of the frontier and the dynamism of nascent capitalism. His report on a visit to the Sioux and other observations on Indian tribes, while generally condescending, favorably contrast "savage" existence with the civilization of lawless whites. This reprint of the increasingly rare Englishman in Kansas is a welcome source for students of ante-bellum America. James A. Rawley supplies an adequate forward, but the omission of an index is unfortunate. Gerald Sorin State University of New York, New Paltz Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847. Translation and introductory essay by Michael Aaron Rockland. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. Pp. xiii, 330. $9.50.) The publication of this work makes available for the first time a complete English edition of the account of Argentina's Domingo Faustine Sarmiento's first trip to the United States. In his introduction Professor Rockland provides the reader with a very useful summary of Sarmiento's career as writer, revolutionary, educator and political leader, with special emphasis on his relationship with the United States. Sarmiento came to the United States in 1847 as part of a study tour to assist the government of Chile in establishing a modem system of public education. He remained here only two months but traveled extensively during that time. In Massachusetts he met Horace Mann who proved invaluable in introducing him to educators and writers. Mann's own work provided the model Sarmiento found most useful in applying United States practices to his part of the world. When he returned to the United States in 1865 as Ambassador from Argentina he contacted Mann's widow, who again gave him valuable introductions to influential Americans. She later agreed to translate his book Facundo, the only work by Sarmiento to be published in English translation until the present volume. Unlike many other foreign visitors, Sarmiento came with a positive point of view and his bias permeates much of his account. He believed that the success of the United States in its republican form of government constituted the wave of the future, a future he anticipated with approval. Only a few flaws, such as an abundance of avarice and bad faith, marred the American character. Some of his observations reveal a lack of understanding of the country he so greatly admired. He thought, for example, that Americans lived "without a government" in a society where "a man who works will infallibly get ahead." He recognized slavery as an ulcer, incompatible with a free nation, but at- 186CIVIL WAR HISTORY tributed its presence to European influences, and he saw no solution except all-out racial warfare or the creation of a vastly inferior black nation within the larger nation. Nevertheless Sarmiento's travel book provides a good corrective for some of those written by contemporaries whose biases were more negative . As a work written by one of the leading Latin American intellectuals and political activists, it assumes first-rate significance. Sarmiento worked diligently to make his fellow Argentinians aware of the United States, and to make Americans aware of Argentina. This new edition of his travel book should add still another dimension to his task. Larry Gara Wilmington College Frontier Governor: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas. By Mark A. Plummer . (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1971. Pp. xiii, 210. $7.75.) Observers of the Kansas scene in the 1860's might have predicted a bright political future for Samuel Crawford because of his spectacular rise to high state office, but the young Kansas governor reached the apex of his political career very early in life. Crawford went to Kansas in 1859 and served briefly in the state legislature before joining the military upon the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1864 Colonel Crawford , commander of a Negro regiment, received the Republican nomination for governor and was elected to that office before his thirtieth birthday. Crawford served two...

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