7–26445.
An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction describing the regime of the time.
“The volume adds less than might be expected from a document introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w. |
“As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious study.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w. |
“Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”
| + | Nation. 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w. |
“The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of the state of politics or of political morality in the period immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in familiar authorities.”