“There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this kind.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w. |
Walpole, Sir Spencer. Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.
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Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden, Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,” concludes the volume.
“They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly presentment of fact.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w. |
“It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”
| + | Dial. 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w. |