“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and praiseworthy investigations.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 1580w. |
“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition, Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work, we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is entirely to be trusted.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 278. S. 1, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the ethnology of South Africa.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 890w. |
“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 225. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1490w. |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. [Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly.] $1.25. Crowell.
This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.