“At the end of the publishing season these reminiscences will probably be described as the liveliest volume that it has produced. It is crammed with good things from beginning to end.”
+ + Acad. 71: 413. O. 27, ’06. 1160w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s recollections resemble nothing so much as drawing-room conversation in its happier moments. They are bright, charitable, rather inconsequential; and if they sometimes descend to trivialities, a pointed anecdote soon brings gaiety back again.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 574. N. 10. 1530w.
“A lively picture of the past and a not less vivacious account of some aspects of the present.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1110w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book is full of good things, scattered over its pages without much regard to order. The part of the ‘Reminiscences’ which, to be frank, disappoints us is that relating to Lord Beaconsfield.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 1520w.
“It is, then, not as a profound study of men and manners that the reader will find this volume of reminiscences valuable, but rather as a series of brilliantly coloured sketches of social life in early and mid Victorian times.”
+ Spec. 97: 788. N. 17, ’06. 1720w.