“Mr. Adams has other qualities besides humour and characterization.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 202. Ag. 12, 140w. |
“The story, told in Mr. John Henry Smith’s delightful and hearty style, is particularly suitable for summer reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 670w. |
Adams, Oscar Fay. Dictionary of American authors. $3.50. Houghton.
An outgrowth of the writer’s “Handbook of American authors,” published in 1884. This fifth edition contains over eight thousand five hundred names of recognized contributors to American literature, nearly three thousand more names than the first edition and over one thousand more than the fourth. The work is intended for critics, editors, and publishers, who have to do with contemporary literature, as well as for students of American literature and librarians.
| + + | Nation. 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 120w. |
Adams, Samuel. Writings of Samuel Adams; ed. by H. A. Cushing. [*]$5. Putnam.
“The editor of this volume properly says in the preface that the writings of no one of the leaders of the American revolution form a more complete expression of the causes and justification of that movement than do the writings of Samuel Adams. Such a collection has long been needed.... The present volume covers the period from 1765 to 1769, inclusive.... Nearly all the papers are of a distinctly public character.... Brought together from many places, from the manuscript collections of the Earl of Dartmouth, the collections in the Lenox library, the Massachusetts state papers, the Life by Wells, the Prior documents and other printed sources.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Everything included here is so desirable for an understanding of the Revolutionary movement that the reviewer has not the courage to advise the omission of papers the authenticity of which is in doubt, but he does express the desire that succeeding volumes will make plain the basis of inclusion and that work of such importance as this should not be subjected to so serious a criticism.”