Of Rutherford B. Hayes, first volume of Dodd, Mead and Company's
_American Political Leaders_. New York, 1930:
"If the series maintains the standard of this first volume it
will be a landmark in American letters and scholarship. An
excellent book, interesting and convincing, sane and balanced."
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS, Editor of _Dictionary of American Biography_.
"A fascinating biography, scholarly, brilliant, entertaining
and illuminating."
CLAUDE BOWERS, Noted Historian and Ambassador.
"She contributed several of the early chapters which are
sprightly and engrossing."
VIRGINIUS DABNEY, Editor and Author.
Of E. H. Harriman, _The Little Giant of Wall Street_, Greenberg. New
York, 1933:
"Mrs. Edmunds and Dr. Eckenrode have the gift of breathing life
into those they treat and I particularly like their force of
style."
ALLAN NEVINS, Noted Historian.
"Excellent capitalist lore":
Review in the _World Telegram_.
Of Mrs. Edmunds, _Legends of the North Carolina Coast_, Garrett and
Massie. Richmond, Va., 1941:
"Mrs. Edmunds's style is good."
DUBOSE HEYWARD, Author of _Porgy_.
"Charming book ... written with poetic fervor, brief and
evocative."
_New York Herald-Tribune Book Review._
"Written with craftsmanship and genuine artistry."
_The Atlanta Journal._
"Written with lyrical beauty and a fine sense of selection."
_Greensboro News._
"Interesting new book...."
DOUGLAS FREEMAN, Editor and Author.
Of Mrs. Edmunds, _Tales of the Virginia Coast_, Dietz Press. Richmond,
Va., 1950:
"A fine and useful piece of writing."
LAURA KREY, Author of: _And Tell of Time_.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from
the original.
Obvious typographical errors in the original have been corrected as
follows:
Page 15: "sportmens'" changed to "sportsmen's"
Page 18: "cooly" changed to "coolly"
Page 37: "fastidously" changed to "fastidiously"
Page 68: "(Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 18713" changed to
"(Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 1871)"
Page 70: "Refgrence" changed to "Reference"
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
Footnote anchors exist on page 64, but no footnotes exist in the
original.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed.