“[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point, is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w. |
Oliver, Frederick Scott. Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American union. *$3.75. Putnam.
6–16717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John Spencer Bassett.
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w. |
“It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.
| + + | No. Am. 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w. |
Ollivant, Alfred. [Redcoat captain: a story of that country], il. †$1.50. Macmillan.