An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side lights upon the men and politics of his day.
“It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H. Levermore.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 168. O. ’07. 950w. |
“It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 612. N. ’07. 1080w. |
“The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 752. Je. 22. 1750w. |
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
| + + | Atlan. 100: 421. S. ’07. 2160w. |