+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 690. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
“Much information which is not readily, if at all to be found elsewhere.”
+ + Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 80w.
“A clear and sane account of a worthy patriot and jurist is given by a practiced historian in this volume.”
+ Ind. 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 70w.
“The life story [is] ... unfolded clearly and in an interesting way. At times Mr. Brown troubles himself overmuch about petty details, and at others betrays an undue enthusiasm for his hero. But his work—which is based on original research and makes available not a little hitherto unpublished material—has the signal merit of affording a better insight not alone into Ellsworth’s character and activities, but into the temper of the times in which he lived.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 530w.
“His biographer, accordingly, finds a dearth of material, and is forced to rely much upon that indispensable and most dangerous faculty of the historian—imagination. As a judicious and sympathetic study of a notable American statesman and jurist, the volume is heartily to be welcomed.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 930w. N. Y. Times. 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 270w.
“In William Garrott Brown’s book on his life and works the treatment is as ample as could be desired, if, indeed, it be not a trifle too detailed for easy reading.”