The Mail and Express:
“The volume is unique; nothing quite like it has ever been attempted before. The result is a valuable as well as an entertaining work. It is full of information, much of it curious, and all of importance to one who desires to know how his forefathers lived.”
The Dial:
“The work is mainly and essentially an antiquarian account of the tools, implements, and utensils, as well as the processes of colonial domestic industry; and it is full enough to serve as a moderate encyclopædia in that kind.... This useful and attractive book, with its profuse and interesting pictures, its fair typography, and its quaint binding, imitative of an old-time sampler, should prove a favorite.”
Education:
“Mrs. Earle has made a very careful study of the details of domestic life from the earliest days of the settlement of the country. The book is sumptuously illustrated, and every famed article, such as the spinning-wheel, the foot-stone, the brass knocker on the door, and the old-time cider mill, is here presented to the eye, and faithfully pictured in words. The volume is a fascinating one, and the vast army of admirers and students of the olden days will be grateful to the author for gathering together and putting into permanent form so much accurate information concerning the homes of our ancestors.”
Literature:
“Mrs. Earle’s fidelity in study and her patient research are evident on every page of this charming book, and her pleasantly colloquial style is frequently assisted by very beautiful illustrations, both of the houses of the colonists, from the primitive cave dug-out of the hillside and made to answer for warmth and shelter, to the more comfortable log cabin, the farmstead with its adjacent buildings, and the stately mansion abiding to our own day.”
CHILD LIFE IN COLONIAL DAYS
By ALICE MORSE EARLE
Profusely Illustrated
Crown 8vo. Cloth. Gilt top. $2.50
Commercial Advertiser:
“Once more Mrs. Earle has drawn on her apparently inexhaustible store of colonial lore, and has produced another interesting book of the olden days.... Mrs. Earle’s interesting style, the accuracy of her statements, and the attractive illustrations she always supplies for her books make the volume one to be highly prized.”
Buffalo Express:
“Mrs. Alice Morse Earle performs a real historical service, and writes an interesting book. It is not a compilation from, or condensation of, previous books, but the fruit of personal and original investigation into the conditions of life in the American colonies.”