| N. Y. Times. 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w. |
Larned, Josephus Nelson. Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
| + + − | Forum. 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w. |
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the day.”
| + | Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w. |
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.