_TIMES._--"Gives a wonderfully vivid picture of events."
_SPECTATOR._--"Mr. Traill has done his work well in the limited space at his command. The narrative portion is clear and vivacious, and his criticisms, although sometimes trenchant, are substantially just."
_ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE._--"It deserves to be read, not only as the work of one of the most prominent politicians of the day, but for its intrinsic merits. It is a clever, thoughtful, and interesting biography."
_TIMES._--"Brilliant and fascinating.... The style is terse, masculine, nervous, articulate, and clear; the grasp of circumstance and character is firm, penetrating, luminous, and unprejudiced; the judgment is broad, generous, humane, and scrupulously candid.... It is not only a luminous estimate of Pitt's character and policy; it is also a brilliant gallery of portraits. The portrait of Fox, for example, is a masterpiece."
_DAILY NEWS._--"A model of what such a book should be. We can give it no higher praise than to say that it is worthy to rank with Mr. John Morley's _Walpole_ in the same series."
_ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE._--"It comes near the model of what such a book should be."