| + + + | Ind. 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w. |
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive qualities.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w. |
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w. |
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him, enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w. |
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr. Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”