+ + Spec. 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Atkinson, George Francis. College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.
“Professor Atkinson has been exceptionally fortunate in accomplishing a very difficult piece of work. The studies have been carefully prepared and this scientific survey of the botanical field will be widely appreciated.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + + Educ. R. 31: 211. F. ’06. 780w.
Atlay, J. B. Victorian chancellors. 2v. v. 1. *$4. Little.
“Mr. Atlay purposes to deal in two volumes with the careers of the Lords Chancellors during the reign of Queen Victoria. The first volume contains the memoirs of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham and Lord Truro.... Mr. Atlay’s work is extremely interesting whether he is writing of men about whom there are voluminous biographies too cumbrous to be read pleasantly, or of men such as Lord Cottenham and Lord Truro about whom he has had to collect data for himself.... Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham have been much written about; but Mr. Atlay has used information either not open to Lord Campbell or used by him invidiously; and as to Lord Lyndhurst especially he corrects Campbell’s unfair sketch following Sir Theodore Martin’s biography.” (Sat. R.)
“To measure two men so dissimilar in character, opinion and temperament as Lyndhurst and Brougham, with an equal hand is no small achievement, and Mr. Atlay deserves all the commendation that we can give him.”
+ + Acad. 70: 327. Ap. 7, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume is lively and entertaining, well compiled from a variety of authentic sources, and as regards Lyndhurst and Brougham much more trustworthy than the rather spiteful and far from accurate biographies which the late Lord Campbell wrote of his two contemporaries.”