“The story is told compactly, but with sufficient fullness.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w. |
“Such a book is a boon to many men, who will find it concise but not perfunctory, learned but never dull.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 320w. |
“He has had no easy task in compressing into the limits of even the larger volumes of this series so great a mass of material; and he has performed it with skill and success.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 330w. |
Older, Mrs. Fremont. Giants. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
“One giant is an oil trust magnate; the other a young man who opposes him. Scenes are laid in ‘Oilville,’ California, and New York, where the young man has carried a reform campaign and become district attorney. The book falls in with a popular tone of antagonism to trusts as throttling competition.”—Outlook.
[*] “The whole narration is pitched in the highest key of sensationalism, and the figures that take part in it have but slight resemblance to real human beings.” Wm. M. Payne.
| — | Dial. 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 370w. |