| + | Ind. 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w. |
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with ordinary habits.”
| + | Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w. |
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s father.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w. |
Madison, James. Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
v. 6. “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an important series of instructions to the American representatives in England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.) |
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of the editor are judicious and accurate.”