+ − Am Hist R 26:316 Ja ’21 750w Ath p1243 N 21 ’19 100w
“It is written in a somewhat ebullient manner which, although it makes agreeable reading, is not altogether favourable to processes of reasoned argument. We do not wish to suggest that M. Waliszewski is consciously prejudiced, but he is perhaps too closely affected by the conditions he describes to judge them dispassionately.” P. S.
+ − Ath p1396 D 26 ’19 520w
“M. Waliszewski is an excellent sales-agent who knows his literary and historical wares and knows, also, how to spread them before his customers with tact and grace; but for all that, his work will hardly serve as a reliable guide for future historians of the Polish question—if only because, having spent most of his life in Paris, be writes with a decidedly French accent.” H. W. van Loon
− + Freeman 2:237 N 17 ’20 620w
“Unfortunately for his main purpose, he has felt called upon to develop his thesis in a detail which makes the book rather difficult reading for anyone not intimately acquainted with Polish history.” M. A. Chickering
+ − Survey 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 190w The Times [London] Lit Sup p615 O 30 ’19 70w
“Being written as a corrective it tends to give a somewhat one-sided view if taken only in itself without reference to the mass of literature which it seeks to controvert. Even so it is of very considerable interest, especially in regard to the history of the nineteenth century.
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p659 N 20 ’19 170w
WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER). Sandman’s rainy day stories. il *75c (2c) Harper