“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or thought it.”
– + Putnam’s. 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.
Weeden, William Babcock. War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government, federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and between the people and the governing body.”
“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and, with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ – Atlan. 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading; but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”