“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of Roosevelt’s personality.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 F 11 ’20 160w Nation 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w
“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”
+ − Outlook 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w R of Rs 62:419 O ’20 950w Springf’d Republican p10 My 4 ’20 180w
ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of. Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner
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“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things. What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history is primarily a biography. But during at least the first five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House, at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence, much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page. The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker
+ Am Hist R 26:87 O ’20 750w + Ath p206 F 13 ’20 1700w