The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

Returning to America he soon entered definitely upon a literary career. It speedily passed through many editions was translated into French Dutch German and Russian. John Lothrop Motley a Memoir (Boston 1878); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records (1910) edited by his daughter Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.