+ + – Acad. 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.
“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.
“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.
“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps tedious.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.
“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central Asian affairs.”
+ + Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.
“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”