Todd, Charles Burr. In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.
“The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth. He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to patriotism.’”—Critic.
“If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the object will be attained.”
+ Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 150w.
“The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with pleasure and profit by the general public.”
+ Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
“It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside and not for the historian’s shelves.”
+ – Nation. 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 600w.
“Entertaining little book.”