“The scheme has been very carefully and soberly carried out.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 220w. |
“A very interesting account of the 520 men who have won the cross.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w. |
“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald, and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr. Wilkins’s records are interesting.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] Wilkins, William Henry. Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. [**]$5. Longmans.
“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs. Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his subject.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1219. N. 25, ‘05. 1930w. |