[*] “It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the instructive value of a biography.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] “The story is not quite as good as its predecessors.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + — | R. of Rs. 32: 758. D. ‘05. 90w. |
Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis. Harm Jan Huidekoper. [*]$2.50. Clarke.
An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796 at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and genealogy.
“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a literary point of view.”
| + + — | Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 270w. |
“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland land company should have some historical value.”
| + | Nation. 80: 153. F. 23, ‘05. 380w. |