| + + − | Acad. 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w. |
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical value arising from the important share which the author himself took in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w. |
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the beginning of the Boer war.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w. |
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
| + + | Spec. 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w. |
Maxwell, Donald. Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
7–19483.
“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat, from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube, but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.