“We must call this work a much more finished and interesting performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”
+ Nation. 82: 491. Je. 14, ’06. 560w.
“The author of these volumes has told his story well and sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth telling.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended. The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost every personage discussed.”
– + Outlook. 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 330w.
“Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is preserved throughout.”
+ Spec. 96: 98. Ja. 20, ’06. 2020w.
Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor). On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.
“If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.