“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the Eastern wonderland.”
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“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
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“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end, of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining contribution to history.”
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Landor, Walter Savage. Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
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A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)