“The characters of the story are lifelike and typical.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Eggleston’s story has not the smallest relation to life. Two merits, however, it has: It is readable, and many of the opinions expressed in the conversations ... are striking and suggestive.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 690w.
“It tells a good story with a wholesome love interest, and it is full of situations and incidents that suggest and stimulate thought.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w. Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
Eggleston, George Cary. Life in the eighteenth century. **$1.20. Barnes.
“In this companion volume to ‘Our first century,’ Mr. Eggleston carries his story through the eighteenth century. The plan pursued is essentially the same as in the first book, the author seeking to give his narrative as human a meaning as possible, and merely touching upon the events which are treated at length in the conventional school history.”—Pub. Opin.
“The author has dealt too largely in generalities, included too much vain repetition of the matter contained in the very volumes to which this one should be auxiliary, and omitted too many of the picturesque minor details which more than anything else reveal what the life of any past epoch really was.”