One of the most accurate and learned books on Colonial Vir ginja is Anderson's History of the British Colonial Church. In commenting on the criticism of Our Virginia Burke, who said Smith's work is a sortvof epic history or romance in which' the author recounts like Ossian, his achievements in like spirit in which he fought. Anderson says: The greater part of Smith's History is made up of the narratives of his companions, ex pressed sometimes in grandiloquent terms, but Smith's own language is remarkable for its simplicity.