“It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a great public servant.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w. |
“A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his subject.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w. |
“Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w. |
“His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this present juncture.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w. |
“The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord Milner.”