In the year 1843, two new books took the American public by storm: one was Prescott’s _History of the Conquest of Mexico_, and the other _Life in Mexico_ by Madame Calderon de la Barca. William Hickling Prescott was already known as an able historian on account of his scholarly _Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain_ which had appeared four years before and elicited praise from all quarters; but his new work outran the former in that the author had succeeded in depicting one of the most stirring episodes of history with the grandeur of an epic and the interest of a novel.

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