“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry, have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”
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“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his ‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”
+ Spec 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w
“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p73 F 5 ’20 3650w
In the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–19505
The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs ‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on life and books.