“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography [is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs
Booklist 16:344 Jl ’20
“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w
“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord
+ − Nation 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w
“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”
+ R of Rs 61:444 Ap ’20 160w
GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount. Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824