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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is hardly a page without its incident, information, or picturesque descriptions; to turn a leaf too hastily is to miss some interesting fact or vivid picture.”
“The narrative is picturesque and full of color, and the pictures and sketches really illustrate the text.”
“‘The flock’ is a book which the driven scientific man may read for recreation and information at once. There is much keen observation, much shrewd suggestion, and no end of delight in ‘The flock.’ And trained in the scientific method or not, Mrs. Austin is honest and truthful as one may be. That is, she tells only what to her eye and ear and mind comes with the seeming of truth.” Vernon L. Kellogg.
“There is a smack of R. L. Stevenson about the book, though rather in the subject than in the style, which leans towards the pretentious. But as a literary work it is vivid.”
Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron.On municipal and national trading. $1. Macmillan.
7–23725.
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An argument against municipal trading. The author shows that municipal trade increases local expenditure and local indebtedness, gives rise to awkward labor problems, seriously interferes with private enterprise and our foreign commerce, and that by reducing the demand for labor it has not only injured the ratepayers generally, but especially the working classes.
“His book, it hardly need be said, is an able presentation of his subject. While less partisan and more dignified than Mr. Porter, Lord Avebury is seldom thoroughly judicial in his treatment of his subject.”
“All thru the book Lord Avebury shows an amazing fondness for irresponsible writers and a curious shyness of official figures.”
“The materials appear to have been gathered hastily, and are thrown together in slap-dash fashion.”
“One commendable feature of the book is its definiteness. The reader who seeks a clear, brief statement of the arguments against municipal trading cannot find the case more satisfactorily stated than in Lord Avebury’s book.” Wm. Hill.
“A useful handbook for those who may have to debate the subject on public platforms.”
Avery, Elroy McKendree.History of the United States and its people. In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
v. 3.“Volume three is devoted to what has been happily termed a neglected period of American history,—a period extending through the latter part of the seventeenth to well toward the meridian of the eighteenth century. Behind it lay the stirring, strenuous and oftentimes intensely exciting period that marked the colonization of the new world and the struggle for a firm foothold,—a struggle that sometimes meant war with Indians, sometimes conflict with rival nations, and ever the fierce battle to subjugate the soil and wring from it more than was needed to supply food, raiment and shelter for the isolated bands on the wilderness frontiers of the new world.”—Arena.
“Mr. Avery has aimed at and achieved ‘readability,’ and at the same time there is little doubt that this will be the standard record of United States history.”
“We have detected but one actual inaccuracy—an understatement of Oglethorpe’s age. The American writer’s handling of some portions strikes us as hardly adequate.”
“On the whole the volume is superior to its predecessor. The sense of proportion is better developed.” Wm. R. Shepherd.
“The strong feature of this volume, as of its predecessor, is—aside from the work of the publishers—the accuracy and detail of the author’s narrative. Certain of its limitations are also among those of the earlier volumes and seem, therefore, likely to characterize the entire work. They are: First, the author’s lack of assured perspective and his consequent inability to impart emphasis, selection and organization to his work; secondly, his attempts to vary the monotony inevitable in a narrative devoid of the above mentioned qualities by constant recourse to the phraseology of others or to awkward trivialities; and thirdly, his disposition to abdicate to others the historian’s essential function of passing judgment, without at the same time distinguishing at all between the purely personal opinions of those whom he quotes and their documental verdicts.”
“We are fully gratified to find that it fully maintains the high standard set in the preceding volumes. Dealing as it does with this largely neglected period, is of special interest to students of history.”
“The colonial history of the Jerseys is usually regarded as prosaic in the extreme; but Mr. Avery has discovered in it points of dramatic interest, and has spared no pains to reveal them to us.” Anna Heloise Abel.
“At times there is revealed, often in opening and closing paragraphs, a knack of rapid and effective description. But the body of the chapter is liable to be disjointed and unimportant. The work lacks conscious certainty of judgment and too often seems to be impartial from caution rather than conviction.”
“Dr. Avery’s narrative grows more praiseworthy as it proceeds, while his style is less stilted and freer from mannerisms and fine writing than was the case with the first volume.”
“It is pleasant to find, also, that Mr. Avery has profited by earlier criticisms—developing, for example, far more clearly than before the relationship between the early upbuilding of America and the stirring events transpiring in Europe.”
“Its methods are more like those of the old, with a little less insistence on style. In respect of its material make-up Avery’s work is one of the most notable books ever printed in America, and no doubt the most notable in American history.” John Spencer Bassett.
“Dr. Avery’s style illumines the annals of those primitive times, sustaining the reader’s interest.”
Axon, William E. A.Cobden as a citizen: a chapter in Manchester history. *$6. Wessels.
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Including a facsimile of Cobden’s pamphlet “Incorporate your borough,” with an introduction recording his career as a municipal reformer, and a Cobden bibliography.
“A little volume which all admirers and students of Cobden will desire to possess.”
Ayer, Mary Allette, ed. Heart melodies. **$1. Lothrop.
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The compiler has culled from works of prose and poetry both well-known and obscure these brief quotations chosen because they are helpful and cheering.