“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”
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Marriott, John A. R. Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland. *$2.25. Putnam.
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“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y. Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character that bears the impress of truth.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w. |
“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and loving study before he began his book.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w. |