| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w. |
Johnston, Robert M. Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.
7–24610.
The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans. Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment. “Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 167. O. ’07. S. |
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed, is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional opinions found in the popular histories.”
| + | Dial. 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge, fairmindedness, and good sense.”