+ – Sat. R. 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 280w.
Lucas, Charles Prestwood. Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
It has been the mission of Mr. Lucas to assist President Roosevelt and Captain Mahan in redeeming the history of the war of 1812 alike from “prejudiced treatment and undeserved neglect.” Mr. Lucas views the war from the Canadian standpoint and “the book is in the strictest sense ‘an installment of Canadian history,’ as Mr. Lucas calls it. The sources, in the main, are official dispatches. Slight use has been made of autobiographies, vindications, and ephemeral literature, like Hull’s ‘Memoirs,’ Wilkinson’s ‘Memoirs,’ and Armstrong’s ‘Notices of the war.’ The narrative, so far as it deals with upper Canada, is full and satisfactory. The same can hardly be said of the treatment which lower Canada receives.” (Nation.)
“Though not free from defects, a splendid instalment of Canadian history.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 158. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Lucas possesses to a remarkable degree the judicial temperament which is necessary for an historian whose subject is steeped in controversy.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 580w.
“Is always temperate and fair-minded.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 275. Ag. 10, ’06. 1750w.