v. 3. France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the latter days of the National assembly with its work on the constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate, and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.
“The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English facts and names.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.) |