“There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 88. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1930w. |
“The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it deals.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 670w. |
“A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has generally obtained.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 275. S. 30, ‘05. 1930w. |
“The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better told before.”
| — — + | Sat. R. 100: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1510w. |
“Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 439. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1780w. |