“Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.
| + | Bookm. 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w. |
“Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious possibilities.”
| + | Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the first twenty years of its history.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w. |
“In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”
| + | Nation. 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w. |
“Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”