“No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to find in writing of a very different style.”
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Peck, Harry Thurston. Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–39787.
A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.
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“To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.
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“Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted; instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.