Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of. Essays, v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. [*]$2. Dutton.
“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of ‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N. Y. Times.
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 450w. |
“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not only for their intrinsic value, but for the light they throw upon the mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.
| + + | Critic. 47: 245. S. ‘05. 690w. |
“The first volume is by far the more interesting.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 430w. |
“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest pretensions, admirable.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 194. Je. 16, ‘05. 740w. |
[*] “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks, however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”