“He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)
Paul, Herbert Woodfield. [Life of Froude.] **$4. Scribner.
Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s character and career. “He was one of England’s really great historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)
“A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w. Am. Hist. R. 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.
“His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”