“His sense of proportion is artistic, as well as his perspective. Aside from the almost unexampled impartiality of judgment which the work displays throughout, its most striking characteristics to the lay leader will be found in its subordination of the literary to the judicial element.” Bernadotte Perrin.
| + + + | Atlan. 99: 859. Je. ’07. 5850w. (Review of v. 8 and 7.) |
“Dr. Rhodes’s works ... certainly carry the stamp of verisimilitude and have the force necessary to lure the reader on and invite him to return.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + + | Dial. 42: 180. Mr. 16, ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“The evidence from quantity is abundantly supported by other evidence that Dr. Rhodes lost interest in his task after he had brought the story of actual warfare to a close, or perhaps, more exactly, after he had described the struggle between President Johnson and congress.” Wm. A. Dunning.
| + + − | Educ. R. 34: 109. S. ’07. 2160w. (Review of v. 1–7.) |
“The greatest historical work that has been written in America—great not in length alone, but in excellence of scholarship, and the magnitude and interest of his theme.”
| + + + | Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
“Within the limits I have tried to indicate it is not easily overpraised. That, however, breeds regret—regret that once more a work so excellent as history should not be also excellent as literary art.” William Garrott Brown.
| + + − | Ind. 62: 552. Mr. 7, ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |