“Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.
“Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.
Perry, John G. Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.
Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during 1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger, especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.” (Dial.)
+ Dial. 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w. Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
“A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.