“What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – Bookm. 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.
“Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and significance of the story.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.
“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
“The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course, are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years, beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.
“Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in the ten biographies is quoted.”