“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 200w. |
“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French revolution.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w. |
Washburn, William Tucker. First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.
These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most unfaithful wife.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. [Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements.] [*]$2. Appleton.
A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.