“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w. |
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material, Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w. |
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with good judgment.” Edward Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w. |
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century. They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w. |
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of political and social change are fostered and directed until they have done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w. |