+ Spec. 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie). Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
Mrs. Tweedie’s sketch furnishes an Interesting personality thru which to view the history of modern Mexico. President Diaz himself gave the author diaries, letters, told her anecdotes about himself and associates, related events and described battles and various incidents of his life. With this first-hand information, Mrs. Tweedie received her charge, “Write as you will, but speak good of my country.”
“By leaving out a number of entirely unnecessary exhibitions of personal admiration for the great statesman, the work would have greatly gained in value and the subject himself would have stood forth in nobler proportions.”
+ + – Arena. 36: 661. D. ’06. 7770w.
“A book which begins badly, but becomes most interesting when we reach the man himself.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 480w.
“The book rises to the distinction of being the first adequate biography of the greatest man Mexico has produced.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + Dial. 41: 109. S. 1, ’06. 920w.