+ Booklist 17:47 N ’20 + Springf’d Republican p8a Ap 4 ’20 240w
BLISS, DANIEL. Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss; ed. and supplemented by his eldest son. il *$2.25 Revell
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“Daniel Bliss is not a name of resounding fame, and yet the man who bore it lived a long and useful life, reaching well into its ninth decade, and this long life was for the most part spent in doing good to his fellowman. This book is largely an autobiography written, it is believed, wholly from memory, in his eighty-second year. His life was the life of a missionary, a teacher and the founder and president of the Syrian Protestant college at Beirut. He was born in August, 1823, in Vermont, the son of a farmer of the olden time. In his own language Mr Bliss records many incidents of his childhood. He follows these anecdotes with the story of his school life, his apprenticeship to a tanner, his course later at the academy and at Amherst, where he was graduated in 1852. It was during his college course that he became interested in missions and resolved to become a missionary. Soon after his graduation he received ordination to the ministry. Three years later he was married, and with his wife sailed for his lifework in Syria.”—Boston Transcript
+ Boston Transcript p6 O 9 ’20 340w N Y Evening Post p9 O 30 ’20 120w Outlook 126:421 N 3 ’20 1450w
“Exceedingly readable book. There is something extremely restful and benign in the manner and matter of the narration.”
+ Spec 125:674 N 20 ’20 300w
“One of the most interesting biographies of the year.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 19 ’20 700w