The Author is permitted to append to this preface the opinions of DR. WILLIAMS, of New York, and Dr. Wayland, of Providence, to whom he had the pleasure of submitting his manuscript during his late visit to the United States.
The REV. WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, D.D., New York, says:
"The subscriber has had leisure to peruse but a small section in manuscript of the proposed work of Mr. Phillippo on the Institutions of the United States.
"Its Author, for many years an efficient and honoured missionary in the British West Indies, will be found, as the subscriber believes, to have scanned our country with the eye of an intelligent and practised, but kindly observer. And his new work will not, in interest or intrinsic merit, fall behind his former volume on Jamaica (the scene of his residence and toils),—a book which, some years since, introduced him so favourably, and to so many readers, in both America and Britain.”
The REV. F. WAYLAND, D.D., LL.D., Providence, Rhode Island, says:
"I have read the table of contents of Mr. Phillippo's work on the United States. The topics which he has selected seem to me to embrace all the most important points of interest which at once attract the attention of an enquirer concerning this country. From Mr. Phillippo's habits of correct observation, and from the knowledge I possess of his work on Jamaica, I have no doubt that his statements will be found eminently reliable and deeply interesting. I may also remark, in addition, that the success of Mr. Phillippo as a missionary in Jamaica, and the results of his labours for the improvement of that island, must endear him to every friend of humanity."
How far the writer has succeeded in accomplishing his object, and in justifying the opinion formed of his qualifications by these distinguished men, it remains for the public to determine.