“His judgment is always rational and his conclusions invariably just.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 205. F. 16, ’07. 1480w.
=Acton, Sir John.= Lord Acton and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.
“The book is not very accurately printed; some sentences are made unintelligible by errors of punctuation, and a large number of proper names are misspelt.”
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 410. Ap. ’07. 650w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1140w.
=Adams, Andy.= Reed Anthony, cowman. †$1.50. Houghton.
Autobiographical in form, this book follows in a matter-of-fact way “the career of a young man, who, after serving his four years in the Confederate army, made his way from his native Virginia to Texas, there to become foreman of the ‘cattle drives,’ and so by degrees ranchman and owner of many acres and many herds.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The account of the cowman’s worldly success is, let us admit, by no means free from exaggeration, but the book gives the best picture of the life of the times of any we know, and we heartily recommend it.”
“This ingenuous bit of biography, like the author’s earlier books, will be read not because it is so well done but because it pictures a passing phase of American life.”
“In reading these pages, which bear the stamp of downright honesty, the reader feels that he is in contact with the actual history of an important formative period of national industry—a period which, tho outside of the beaten track of history, is not without significance.”
“The pleasant thing about the narrative is its ingenuousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
“In spite of the sameness due to the likeness of one year of the cattle business to any other year, the book is interesting with the interest which belongs somehow and anyhow to all that is genuine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=Adams, Charles Francis, jr.= Three Phi beta kappa addresses. **$1. Houghton.
Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902; Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these addresses Mr. Adams arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college régime. The license of electives leads to the “way of least resistance:” college athletics are but the “overgrowth of the superficiality which rules the curricula,” etc. He offers helpful reform suggestions on the limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of the student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into smaller units.