“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this work.”
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“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well throughout a pleasing narrative style.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.
“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an eminently readable biography.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w. Sat. R. 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.
“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the biographer. The biographer must not intrude his own personality; the historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison is perpetually doing.”
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