"Graphic and entertaining ... as rich in incident as any romance, and sparkling with wise wit and racy anecdote. It comprises a large mass of valuable and judiciously epitomized information."—Harper's Monthly.
Henry Ward Beecher: His Personality, Career and Influence in Public Affairs. By John R. Howard. With portraits.
"Altogether the finest bit of biographic work that has been done in many a day."—Albion W. Tourgee.
"Gives a well-proportioned view of Beecher's whole career, and is enriched with many personal reminiscences, anecdotes and letters accumulated by Mr. Howard during his forty years of intimate friendship and twenty of close association in literary and business matters with Mr. Beecher, as his publisher."—Brooklyn Times.
Bismarck: His Authentic Biography. By George Hezekiel. Historical Introduction by Bayard Taylor. Profusely Illustrated: New Map, etc.
"Noteworthy for the fullness of its details and the great variety of hitherto unknown facts and incidents that are recorded in it."—N. Y. Sun.
Bryant and His Friends: A Memoir of Wm. Cullen Bryant, and Reminiscences of the best-known Knickerbocker Writers—Irving, Halleck, Paulding, Cooper, Dana, etc., etc. By James Grant Wilson. Illustrated with portraits and manuscript fac-similes.
"A standard volume of literary history."—Boston Traveller.
Life and Letters of John H. Raymond. Organizer and First President of Vassar College. Edited by Harriet Raymond Lloyd. Steel Portrait. Ex. cloth, beveled,
"A book, the charm of which it is not easy to express.... This admirably judicious record of a wholly and singularly beautiful, strong, wise, consecrated life."—Chicago Advance.