+ – Acad. 70: 565. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“The Duke might have curbed his pen to advantage.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 755. Je. 23. 1970w. + + – Blackwood’s. 180: 343. S. ’06. 3530w.
“It differs in two particulars from most British biographies. It deals with political and social life in Scotland as well as in England; and more than any biography of recent times, except perhaps that of Earl Granville, it deals with life almost exclusively from an aristocratic point of view.”
+ + Ind. 61: 454. Ag. 23, ’06. 1390w.
“Has an interest and a value little below Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’ in the brightness of the light which it throws on the English history of its time.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w. + Lond. Times. 5: 197. Je. 1, ’06. 3540w. + – Nation. 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 1030w.
“The chapters which follow the autobiography give a most inadequate picture of what the Duke was in his prime and of what he did. The chapter on his science is particularly disappointing.”
+ + – Nature. 74: 437. Ag. 30, ’06. 3880w.
“The various kinds of interest that belong to the memoirs of a statesman, relating great events in which he has a borne a part, and the chronicles of a recluse, of a naturalist watching the lower lives about him, belong to these volumes.” Montgomery Schuyler.