+ + Spec. 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie. [Russia.] $5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather than to the historian.” F. G. D.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w. + + + Outlook. 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w. + + Quarterly R. 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the best English book on Russia.” C. D.
+ + + Yale R. 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.
Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general. Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was practically complete. It is written with the personal note individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of finding working principles.
“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would read with understanding and enjoyment.”