| + | Outlook. 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v. **$7.50. Jacobs.
7–33957.
A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war without the help of so great and loyal a financier.
“The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr. Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of reference.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w. |
“Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this honest man and patriot is called for.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w. |
“Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a work that is otherwise of real value.”