“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with convincing truth.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 220w. |
“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not the creation, of a genre.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 320w. |
“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w. |
“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 1150w. |
Friedenwald, Herbert. Declaration of independence. [**]$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of ‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy, Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776, and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared independence of England.”—R. of Rs.