Chapter 4
"It is a book that one may pick up for a few moments and be transported back to the days which are no more, when the Indian and the ranchman, the soldier and the gambler and the adventurer, thrown together, created a society that was never dull. In these stories Mr. Wister has reproduced this life in fine fashion. The atmosphere of the book is buoyant. The spirit of the wild is in it. It is a delineation of life and society made familiar to an earlier generation by the nickel library, but very much truer to life and expressed by a literary artist."--_Boston Herald._
"It is a pleasant hour with the world's great minds and a strong man's belief in the greatness of his native land."--_Lexington Herald._
"The stories show Mr. Wister at his best. It would be a difficult task to give the stories a rating as to value. All are good. Admirers of Wister will find in this book one that they will read several times."--_Detroit News._
=Lady Baltimore=
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"It is pleasant to be able to say that ... his reputation will be more than merely maintained by his new venture ... It would be difficult to speak too highly of this delightful volume ... 'Lady Baltimore,' as may be gathered from what we have said above, is a many-sided book.... In fine, here is an author of whom America may well be proud, not only for his literary accomplishments, but for his generous, yet discriminating, love of his country."--_The Spectator_, London.
"Full of the tenderest human interest, sufficiently dramatic, with a decided touch of originality."--_Daily News_, Chicago.
"A delightful story; the reader is captivated from the start."--_New York Globe._
"As a picture it is charming; as a story it has genuine strength."--_New York Mail._
"Wholly charming from end to end."--_Toronto Globe._
"The story maintains a rare quality of sincerity and indefinable charm."--_North American_, Philadelphia.
"A most charming story ... one of the most exquisite done in years."--_Citizen_, Brooklyn.
"A love story that even excels that between Molly Wood and 'The Virginian.'"--_The Advance_, Chicago.
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=How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee=
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"Mr. Wister's humor is always genuine and racy, and in this little burlesque he fairly riots in absurd specimens of supersimplified spelling. This fantastic skit is intensely amusing."--_Outlook._
"It is a clever extravaganza, and points a moral without possibility of mistake."--_Louisville Post._
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=Philosophy Four=
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"Owen Wister is a born story-teller. If you have ever read any of his books you have doubtless discovered this for yourself. In this charming story of undergraduate life at Harvard, Mr. Wister has shown that he has great skill in character delineation."--_The Boston Globe._
=The Seven Ages of Washington=
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CRITICAL COMMENDATION
"It is a curious fact that the life of Washington has never been really easy to write.... But in these matters the character of the historian means everything. If we have the right man we may be sure of a good book. As regards the true Washington we have in Mr. Wister the right man.
"'The Seven Ages of Washington' ... gives a remarkable interpretation of its subject.... It is plain that the author has been moved to the depths of him by his hero's worth, finding in the traditionally 'cold' figure of Washington a type to touch the emotions as vividly as Napoleon touches them in even his most dramatic moments. He passes on his impression in a few chapters which gather up everyday traits as they come out in letters and other records. The salient events in Washington's career, military and political, are indicated rather than dwelt upon. The object of interest is always his character; the things placed in the foreground are the episodes, great or small, which show us that character in action or point to the sources of its development....
"The background is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here."--From a column review of the book in _The New York Tribune_, Nov. 23, 1907.
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[Transcriber's Note:
* Replicated chapter titles removed.]
End of Project Gutenberg's The Pentecost of Calamity, by Owen Wister