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“The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”
– Spec. 97: 579. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of. Letters to “Ivy” from the first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5. Longmans.
“All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.) “Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant, since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the ‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)
“The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to make against it is its title.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1071. O. 14, ’05. 1150w.
“Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his notes are too exclusively political.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 573. O. 28. 2090w. + Ind. 61: 100. Jl. 12, ’06. 520w.