+ + – Engin. N. 55: 427. Ap. 12, ’06. 1170w.
Thomas, Edward. Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
+ – Int. Studio. 27: 182. D. ’05. 290w.
Thompson, Charles Willis. Party leaders of the time; character studies of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at large. **$1.75. Dillingham.
The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in this volume add much to this popular account of those figures prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready pen.
+ Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively as well as instructive reading.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 140w.
“Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted large, and each much of the same bigness.”