| + + | Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “Valuable addition to the Newnes series.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ‘05. 210w. |
Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861-1865. [*]$3.50. Putnam.
This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there is much in it which the general public may read with profit and interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)
[*] “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the volume.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 431. S. 30. 1070w. |
[*] “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less, and omitted some of the many details with which they load their pages.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 720w. |
[*] “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military pronouncement on the subject.”