| + | Dial. 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w. |
“This Evangeline, though not without the serene egotism of lovely youth, is mighty good company. The men are not half bad, and the book is full of cleverness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 156. Mr. 11, ‘05. 690w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 40w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“The intention of the book seems to be to present a ‘naughty’ heroine. Evangeline is ‘not nice’.”
| — | Reader. 6: 476. S. ‘05. 220w. |
“The story is witty, fluent, and amusing.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Gocher, W. H. Wadsworth; or, The charter oak. $2. W: H: Gocher, Hartford, Conn.
“It purports to give all that is ascertainable relating to the hiding of the colonial charter, in 1687, in the famous oak tree at Hartford,—an incident of which Captain Joseph Wadsworth, according to doubtful tradition, was the hero. Wadsworth himself, is made to tell the story of the charter and its hiding, in language that is undisguisedly hodiernal, and with many interpolations of matter remotely or not at all connected with the main theme. The chapters on the Royal oak, on Cromwell, and on the regicides, are of this irrelevant nature. The wording, and still more the spelling, of Joseph Wadsworth’s will, which is printed in full, are so strikingly in contrast with the modernity of his supposed narrative, that not the faintest touch of illusion can cling to the latter. Mr. Gocher’s work is lavishly illustrated from old prints, old portraits, and modern photographs, and is provided with numerous footnotes bearing evidence of painstaking research.”—Dial.
“A mingling of fiction and somewhat delusive fact gives the text ... a doubtful historic value.”