+ – Lond. Times. 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get a first-hand impression.”
+ – Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.
“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R. Colquhoun.
+ – Nature. 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w. N. Y. Times. 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w. + Sat. R. 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
Hall, Henry Foljambe, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3. Dutton.
Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous, and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author, who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron, Rapin, and Carte.