“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B. Bourne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 241. O. 16, ‘05. 920w. |
“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the narrative and in Appendix I.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 930w. |
“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note of the book.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 151. Ag. 17, ‘05. 730w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 330w. |
“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been told earlier and told better.”
| — — | N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 450w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 509. O. ‘05. 50w. |
“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight, but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already attained in this field of historical inquiry.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 811. Je. 17. ‘05. 1610w. |