“Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w. |
Bates, David Homer. Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.
7–32385.
Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861 to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.
“His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply and naturally written.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w. |