“The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work on ‘Contemporary France.’”
+ + – Ind. 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.) + + Lond. Times. 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of great importance in it.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.” Christian Gauss.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)