“This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr. Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 12: 166. O. ’06. 940w.
“The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably terse.”
+ Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + – Dial. 40: 254. Ap. 16, ’06. 1180w.
“All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and convinces.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 550w.
“It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary, intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his achievement.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 760w. + + Nation. 83: 102. Ag. 2, ’06. 1060w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 340w.