“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty, aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking phases of American history.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“The text ... is rather injudicious in tone.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 220w. |
“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 330w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Suyematsu, K., baron. Risen sun. [**]$3. Dutton.
In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)
[*] “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1183. N. 11, ‘05. 210w. |