| + + − | Dial. 43: 165. S. 16, ’07. 860w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“At times there is revealed, often in opening and closing paragraphs, a knack of rapid and effective description. But the body of the chapter is liable to be disjointed and unimportant. The work lacks conscious certainty of judgment and too often seems to be impartial from caution rather than conviction.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Dr. Avery’s narrative grows more praiseworthy as it proceeds, while his style is less stilted and freer from mannerisms and fine writing than was the case with the first volume.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It is pleasant to find, also, that Mr. Avery has profited by earlier criticisms—developing, for example, far more clearly than before the relationship between the early upbuilding of America and the stirring events transpiring in Europe.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Its methods are more like those of the old, with a little less insistence on style. In respect of its material make-up Avery’s work is one of the most notable books ever printed in America, and no doubt the most notable in American history.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 253. My. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Dr. Avery’s style illumines the annals of those primitive times, sustaining the reader’s interest.”