“Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in existence.”
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“No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”
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“Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”
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“A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”
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Hill, G. Francis. Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y. Times.)