“He tells us much that most books leave out. He helps us to adjust traditional notions to present-day reality.”
+ Critic. 48: 191. F. ’06. 250w. + Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st baron. Lord Curzon in India: being a selection from his speeches as viceroy and governor-general of India, 1898–1905. With a por., explanatory notes, and an index, and with an introd. by Sir Thomas Raleigh. *$4. Macmillan.
“Lord Curzon made more than 250 set speeches during his seven and a half years’ service as viceroy, of which some sixty are in Sir Thomas’s book. They refer to all sorts of subjects, from the Budget—seven budget speeches are given—to art, archaeology, education, the famine, irrigation, game, preservation, the plague, and temperance. Their interest to Americans is of the slightest, except as showing what manner of man Curzon is, who has reversed the usual course of events, and has served in the highest post under the British crown without having worked his way to it systematically.”—N. Y. Times.
“Lord Curzon does not possess a good literary style.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 511. Ap. 28. 930w.
“To the student, not only of history, but of sociology of the human atmosphere, so to speak, of the last decade, the book is deeply interesting and extremely suggestive.”
+ + Ind. 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 250w.
“On the whole, however, it is the matter rather than the manner of the speeches that will interest the reader of this large volume.”