“The present volume is intended to give, within the compass of a single book, the current views of representative men and women upon those special departments of imperial development with which they are severally qualified to deal. Its purpose is to give an authoritative account of the British Empire, as it appeared to contemporaries at this particular moment of its history.” There is an introduction by Mr. Charles Sydney Goldmann, and a poem by Rudyard Kipling, called “The heritage”; the other writers include J. St. Loe Strachey, J. L. Garvin, the Bishop of Stepney, Carolyn Bellairs, R. N.; George Peel, Sir Edward Hutton, Prof. J. W. Robertson, Benjamin Sulte, Sir Godfrey Lagden, Lady Lugard, Valentine Chirol, Sir Frederick Lugard, Col. Younghusband, and many others.
“The essays often contradict one another, and the whole is somewhat in the nature of a collection of magazine articles. On the other hand, some of the contributions are full of interest and well worthy of attentive consideration.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 715. N. 25. 1380w.
“Admirable and extensive compendium.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ Bookm. 23: 251. My. ’06. 620w.
“It contains a great deal of political, geographical and commercial information hard to find elsewhere.”
+ Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w. + + Lond. Times. 4: 377. N. 10, ’05. 2420w.
“The work is a collection of expert opinion not a methodical treatise.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 600w.