“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on fire.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w. |
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his revival of the past.”
| + | Nation. 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w. |
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w. |
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w. |
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w. |