| + + − | Outlook. 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.) |
“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south, from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.) |
“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes, marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes, however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.) |
Harting, James Edmund. Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.
“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.
“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with antiquarian research.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 90w. |