“It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give. His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random, but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W. Kemp.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w. |
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr. Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
| + | Dial. 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w. |
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + | Forum. 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w. |
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
| + | Ind. 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w. |
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w. |