| − | No. Am. 185: 79. My. 3, 07. 1510w. |
“The writer’s intentions are obviously excellent and his philosophy sound. To Dutch readers his performance is doubtless excellent as well, but to us it is so involved, prolix and tiresome as to be absolutely impossible. The barriers between our minds and his book are quite impassable.”
| − + | Putnam’s. 3: 111. O. ’07. 240w. |
“Delicately fanciful, and deeply spiritual besides, ‘The quest’ merits wide attention.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 768. Je. ’07. 30w. |
Eggleston, George Cary. Jack Shelby; a story of the Indiana back-woods. †$1.50. Lothrop.
6–20455.
An exciting tale of the adventurous pioneer days of 1836.
“Not well written, but gives an interesting, and probably accurate picture of pioneer life.”