“A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w. + Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 100w.
“He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ... but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 457. Jl. 21, ’06. 1290w.
“The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of material not heretofore sifted for general use.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Our old home: a series of English sketches]: with an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.
A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863. Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused descriptive bits on the lake country.