“Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 753. Je. 15, ’07. 1040w. |
“The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not by any mean finished.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 340w. |
Schaff, Morris. Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.
7–32862.
While there is a personal note sounded thruout this autobiography, it chronicles the universal experiences of all West Point cadets and so is important as a historic document. The early experiences of the newly-arrived youth through physical hardening processes to which he is subjected give way to the months of patriotic endeavor which result in the “ever-enduring virtues that characterize the soldier, the Christian and the gentleman.”
“His love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse with life and feeling the inanimate objects about him, his fondness for drawing spiritual truths from material facts give to his narrative a higher beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont to find in a soldier’s reminiscences.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43. 310. N. 16, ’07. 1500w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 410w. |