+ N Y Times p6 N 28 ’20 2000w
“The editor of these letters would have enhanced the value of the collection for the general reader if at certain points (not many) he had added a brief note indicating the event out of which the letter grew or to which it referred. The reader gets from these letters a much pleasanter portrait of Henry than from his autobiography.” Lyman Abbott
+ Outlook 127:149 Ja 26 ’21 2150w
“It would be difficult for a master hand at fiction to devise for his own purpose a better stage setting, and a more ingenious relationship of leading characters to the end of developing the intricacies of a big international drama.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 98:1892 D 18 ’20 470w + R of Rs 63:109 Ja ’21 170w
“The ‘Cycle of Adams letters’ is all very interesting, if only as correspondence, and parts of them will add authentic material to the history of the Civil war—all the more so that the letters were probably written without idea of future publication.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a D 5 ’20 1150w
ADAMS, FRANKLIN PIERCE. Something else again. *$1.50 Doubleday 817
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“The editor of the Conning Tower, New York Tribune, amuses himself writing verses in the styles of Horace, Longefellow, Amy Lowell and others and by writing desk copy for the tragedies which formed the subjects of some famous old ballads.”—Booklist