“These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w. |
“The book is a painstaking—even laborious—survey of the life of a very interesting man. The author has a strong bias in favor of his subject, which is not always an advantage to the reader.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 106. F. 23, ’07. 1330w. |
“Must at once be ranked among the great biographies of English statesmen of the nineteenth century. It is one of the class to which Parker’s ‘Peel,’ and Morley’s ‘Gladstone’ belong. As a literary achievement its place is alongside the ‘Life of Peel’ rather than alongside Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’” Edward Porritt.
| + + − | No. Am. 184: 755. Ap. 5, ’07. 1790w. |
“Like most biographers, Mr. Reid paints the character of his hero in too bright colors, and he claims entirely too much for him as a statesman.” W. Roy Smith.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 363. Je. ’07. 1060w. |
“Durham has found in Mr. Reid a capable and warmly sympathetic biographer.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 50. Ja. 12, ’07. 2430w. |