“If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w. |
“Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w. |
“There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w. |
“An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is now filled.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w. |
“He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of Durham’s personal character and political temper.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w. |