“Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would have been enough and, possibly, too much.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 480w.
“It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is left for this garnering.”
– Nation. 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 890w.
“Delightfully written.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.
Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’ gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love, war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is General McClellan.” (Dial.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.