“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill. The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w. |
“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w. |
Heath, William. Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, [**]$2.50. Wessels.
“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major-general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in their way.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w. |