“Mr Payne’s history of American newspaper publication is well written and well proportioned. He has made the story interesting from beginning to end.”
+ R of Rs 62:222 Ag ’20 220w
“Mr Payne’s treatment of the press in the years before the Civil war is much the more satisfactory because, while involving little original research, it deals out information suggestively. The last part of the book is intelligent in general outlines, but is a brief and inadequate summary and seems less frank in comment. The appendices are somewhat haphazard.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 1100w Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 90w
PEABODY, ROBERT SWAIN, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.[[2]] New England romance; the story of Ephraim and Mary Jane Peabody, 1807–1892. il *$2 Houghton
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“Aside from the interest it has of a faithful account by his sons of one of America’s earliest and most distinguished preachers, it possesses value as revealing the life and manner of a period. No conscious attempt has been made to do this, however, and whatever of history the reader may get comes to him as from between the lines and is therefore the more subtly impressed. The early eighties, prior to the Civil war, are revealed through the lives, ambitions, and struggles of the minister and his wife.”—N Y Evening Post
“A quaint book for lovers of New England.”
+ Booklist 17:113 D ’20