− Am Hist R 25:480 Ap ’20 1500w
“Readers of this volume are advised to omit the essay at the end, entitled ‘The rule of phase applied to history.’ Henry Adams had all the virtues of the great amateur—penetration, aloofness, style. It is sad to record that in the end he did not escape the pitfall of most amateurs. He began taking himself seriously, and that as a prophet!” E: S. Corwin
+ − Am Pol Sci R 14:507 Ag ’20 1000w Ath p665 My 21 ’20 2000w + Booklist 16:189 Mr ’20
“Whoever takes up this book in the expectation that he has been invited to a sort of second table of the wondrous banquet spread before the readers of ‘The education of Henry Adams’ will soon learn his mistake. Not that it is not as marvellous in its way, but that it is a separate and distinct production of a mind as varied as it was powerful.” L. S.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 28 ’20 2100w
“Of interest to historians, scientists, and educationists.”
+ Brooklyn 12:89 F ’20 50w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
New Repub 22:162 Mr 31 ’20 1800w
“Why have they been resurrected, and why are they published at the present time, with this preposterous introduction and with a misfit title? The uninitiated will say that the popularity of Henry Adams’s ‘Education’ furnishes the answer.”