“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w. |
“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w. |
“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w. |
“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”
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McKibben, Julia Baldwin. Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.
Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.