+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w
TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS. Builder of the new South; being the story of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday
20–18666
The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the contents of the book)
“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American history.”
+ Booklist 17:114 D ’20 + N Y Evening Post p18 O 23 ’20 240w
TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE). Joanna builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–18300
“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post