| + | Dial. 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 380w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “Its value is permanent by reason of the broadly comprehensive treatment which he has given to the subject of poetry in its larger aspects. I am not sure but he is at his best as a critic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 910. D. 23, ‘05. 1290w. |
Carnegie, Andrew. [James Watt.] [**]$1.40. Doubleday.
Mr. Carnegie has woven into his biography of the inventor of the steam-engine, out of which he made his fortune, his own philosophy of success, drawing upon his personal experience to point the morals found in his hero’s life.
“In Mr. Carnegie he has found a worthy and sympathetic biographer.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2:115. Jl. 22. 880w. |
“The wonderful career of James Watt is here ably retold by a most appreciative countryman with a wealth of comment bearing on or suggested by Watt’s life or inventions, which is scarcely less interesting than the narrative itself.”
| + | Engin. N. 53: 625. Je. 15, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 350w. |
“It is in the expression of the author’s views of life and the world that the work’s value mainly lies, for as a biography, it adds naught to the store of available information. Extremely interesting and helpful.”