“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful research into the records of the period.”
| + | Acad. 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w. |
“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty of an obscure allusion or two.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w. |
“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w. |
“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse of history.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w. |
“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years whose history she narrates.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w. |