“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the enthusiastic amateur.”
| + — — | Acad. 68: 778. Jl. 29, ‘05. 690w. |
“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear, sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred Morrow Fling.
| — — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 157. O. ‘05. 950w. |
“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”
| + — | Bookm. 22: 86. S. ‘05. 270w. |
“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the style is sometimes absurd.”
| + — — | Critic. 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 130w. | |
| Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 250w. |
“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the book is melodramatic.”
| — — — | Ind. 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 320w. |