+ Pub W 99:168 Ja 15 ’21 600w
WHO was who. *$6.50 Macmillan 920
(Eng ed 20–14622)
“This book fills the gap between the standard biographical dictionaries and the current Who’s who. It contains the notices, reprinted from former volumes of Who’s who, of those more or less well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small type.”—Spec
“There is no reason why ‘Who was who’ should not be a democratic work instead of what it is now. There is even no reason why it should not be readable. Accidental exclusion must always occur; deliberate ought never. We commend to the editors the ‘Modern English biography’ of Frederic Boase, as a model of hard fact, of brevity, and yet of amplitude. At the same time, we recognize the greatness of their task and the great usefulness (in the right quarter) of their volume.”
+ − Ath p79 Jl 16 ’20 280w
Reviewed by Ralph Bergengren
Boston Transcript p4 S 22 ’20 2250w + − Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 370w
“As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the more because many of the persons named will never figure in the ‘Dictionary of national biography’ if, as we hope, that great work should be continued.”