Chancellor, Edwin Beresford. History of the squares of London: topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.
A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo; Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.
“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill and industry, appears at a fitting time.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w. |
“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten history, and curious reminiscence.”
| + | Dial. 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w. |
“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400 large pages and weighs 3 lb.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often valuable historical information.”