“While its text should appeal to the scientific man, and its photographic illustrations to the artist, the style is not attractive, and in spite of the theoretical interest of the subject, will hardly induce the wider public to read it in large numbers.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 640w. + Sat. R. 101: 456. Ap. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“This volume is essentially practical, and anyone who has read it with attention will find a new interest added for the future to his daily study of the sky.”
+ + Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 460w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Editorial wild oats.] †$1. Harper.
+ Spec. 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Eve’s diary.] $1. Harper.
“Translated from the original,” these experiences of Eve in the garden of Eden and afterwards form a fitting companion piece to “Extracts from Adam’s diary.” Thruout she is Eve, the first woman, naive, frankly curious and frankly loving, a world of women feel the kin-call when she speaks and her Adam, as she draws him, is without question the eternal masculine. There is a fund of wit and humor in this gentle satire on man and nature and there is something more, an undernote which culminates in this closing tribute to the first mother: At Eve’s grave. Adam: “Wheresoever she was there was Eden.”
“The book is hardly to us a favorable specimen of the author’s humour.”