Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.
+ + Acad. 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)
“Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most of us as new.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.) N. Y. Times. 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and 18.)
“The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents, and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.) + + Sat. R. 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Putnam, James Jackson. Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry. **$2.50. Houghton.
Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices. The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson “for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)
“Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”