Voltaire

We recommend this book for its earnestness, its impartiality of aim, and its freedom from ill-temper and fanaticism. We hope that the author may give us another similar work in explanation of Rousseau. There are few writers so capable of such a work, both by their inborn powers and acquired knowledge, and there are few men of reputation and influence with whom this generation is on the whole less familiar than this other great Frenchman. He tells his story lucidly, without passion, and the result is a very interesting and valuable book. “Excerpt from the book review that appeared in the journal North American Review, published by the University of Iowa.”