“While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome sense.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w. |
“The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are set forth authentically in good chronological order.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w. |
“Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w. |
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
| Putnam’s. 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w. |
“While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr. Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a personal history of the past generation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w. |