In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called Silence, which is one of the sculptor’s most beautiful works.
Suggestions for Reading
1. The Education of Henry Adams is autobiographic.
The persistent irony of the presentation should be corrected by reading Brooks Adams’s account of his brother.
2. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is an attempt to interpret the spirit of mediæval architecture, both secular and ecclesiastical. To appreciate it fully, familiarity with the subject is necessary.
The novels are worth study as satires.
Bibliography
- Democracy. 1880. (Novel.)
- Esther. 1884. (Novel; under pseudonym, “Frances Snow Compton.”)
- Historical Essays. 1891.
- Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1904.
- The Education of Henry Adams. 1918.
- The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. 1919.
- Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920.
- Also in: A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 1920.
Studies and Reviews
- Cambridge.
- Ath. 1919, 1: 361; 1919, 2: 633; 1920, 1: 243, 665.
- Atlan. 125 (’20): 623; 127 (’21): 140.
- Bookm. (Lond.) 57 (’19): 30.
- Cur. Op. 66 (’19): 108.
- Dial, 65 (’18): 468.
- Dublin Rev. 164 (’19): 218.
- Harv. Grad. M. 26 (’18): 540.
- Lond. Times, May 30, 1919: 290.
- Nation, 106 (’18): 674.
- New Repub. 15 (’18): 106.
- New Statesman, 16 (’21): 711.
- 19th Cent. 85 (’19): 981.
- Pol. Sci. Q. 34 (’19): 305.
- Scrib. M. 69 (’21): 576 (portrait).
- Spec. 122 (’19): 231.
- World’s Work, 4 (’02): 2324.
- Yale Rev. n. s. 8 (’19): 580; n. s. 9 (’20): 271, 890.