“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
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“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
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Maxse, Frederick I. Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
War 7–22.
Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced. “The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects, such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight defect in a delightful book.”