Snider, Denton Jaques. American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.
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The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.” (Outlook.)
“However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”
| − + | Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w. |
“Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read these illuminative and instructive chapters.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w. |
“The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is negligible.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w. |