A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.” With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep was the impression created, apart from all political considerations, by his unique personality.”
“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w. |
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material, drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
| + | Bookm. 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w. |
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make his strongest appeal to American readers of English political biography.” Edward Porritt.
| + | Forum. 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w. |
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w. |