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Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty. Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.
The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”
“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”