The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in antebellum days.
Bruce, Philip Alexander. Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
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More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions, and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of the past.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. S. |
“We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the northern army of invasion.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w. |
“It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world history.” W: E. Dodd.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w. |