“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his maps, so-called, are execrable.”
+ − Review 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6) Spec 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5) + Spec 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be congratulated upon his work.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed, since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v 5–6)
D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart. Tales retailed of celebrities and others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
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“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years. The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago: Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains: Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.