“The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’ derision.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w. |
“The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w. |
“Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less full and satisfactory.”
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w. |
“It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w. |
Burkitt, Francis Crawford. Gospel history and its transmission. *$2.25. Scribner.
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