“A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake to apply to the past the standards of the present.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w. |
Smythe, William Ellsworth. Conquest of arid America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
5–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the conquest of arid America.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w. |
Snaith, John Collis. Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–14547.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.