An elaboration of a Washington address by the author. It is “a full-length portrait of Washington with enough of his times to see him clearly against.” Mr. Wister shows how the unfreezing of Washington began by Irving, but that he went at it gingerly; “to-day,” he says “we can see the live and human Washington full length. He does not lose an inch of it, and we gain a progenitor of flesh and blood. The seven ages are Ancestry, The boy, The young man. The married man. The commander, The president, and Immortality.”
“His portrait is thoroughly convincing.”
| + | Dial. 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Witt, Robert Clermont. How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is no better book of the kind.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3:86. Mr. ’07. |
Wolfe, Albert Benedict. Lodging-house problem in Boston: published from the income of the W. H. Baldwin, jr., 1885 fund. (Harvard economic studies, v. 2.) **$1.50. Houghton.