| + — | Ind. 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w. |
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w. |
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w. | ||
| + | Reader. 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w. |
McCarthy, Justin. History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. [*]$1.40. Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”