“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the last sentence of the book reads oddly.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the present English form.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George S. Hellman.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to our biographical literature.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to be effaced.”