“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”
+ Ind 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w
“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed, well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played his part.” Carl Becker
+ Nation 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w
“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified, temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his documents.” H. L. Pangborn
+ N Y Evening Post p6 O 23 ’20 880w
“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which, however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 O 17 ’20 2100w
“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is as rich as on the political.”
+ Sat R 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w