SOURCE: A review of The Life of Francis Place, by Graham Wallas, in the American Historical Review, Vol. III, No. I, October, 1897, pp. 723-25.

In the following review, Porritt favorably assesses Wallas's The Life of Francis Place, commenting that in the work Wallas "handled admirably the enormous mass of material at his disposal. "

The special value of Mr. Wallas's Life of Francis Place is at once obvious to students of English constitutional and party history of the period between the French Revolution and the abolition of the Corn Laws. Biographies and volumes of memoirs and letters coming within these sixty years have been published in large numbers during the last twenty-five years. First-hand material of this kind has been constantly growing in volume; but up to the present time there has been no authoritative book covering that part of the movement for constitutional reform with which Francis Place...