Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron. Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
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Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and policies.” (Outlook.)
“Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and opinions.”
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“It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no books which are more valuable from this point of view than the biography of Sidney Herbert.”
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“In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w. |