“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would have been attracted.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 880w. |
“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T. Munger.
| + + + | Atlan. 96: 556. O. ‘05. 7900w. |
Reviewed by John W. Russell.
| + + + | Bookm. 21: 603. Ag. ‘05. 1460w. |
“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 449. My. ‘05. 1460w. |
“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 260. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1780w. |