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A Defense of the Puritans
Adams, James Truslow | July 2, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "Builders of the Bay Colony," by Samuel Eliot Morison. The form of presentation is wholly delightful. What the author has wished to give readers is a convincing sketch of the life and spirit of the Bay Colony during its first score or so of years. Instead of narrative history he has used biography as his method and in eleven chapters he draws the portraits of more than a dozen of the men and women of the place and period. The book is a sort of "corporation picture," such as used to be popular among the Dutch artists and may be seen at Amsterdam and Haarlem.

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BOOKS & reading; BUILDERS of the Bay Colony (Book); MORISON, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976; BIOGRAPHY; HAARLEM (Netherlands); NETHERLANDS
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