“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
| + − | Engin. N. 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w. |
Keys, Alice Maplesden. Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science.... Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript material.”—Nation.
“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
| − + | Ann. Am. Acad. 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w. |
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a valuable study in political biography.”
| + | Nation. 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w. |