EDWARD GIBSON WAKEFIELD.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21

EDWARD GIBSON WAKEFIELD.

The "Daily Herald" of 9th October contains a review of Miss Irma O'Connor's "Edward Gibbon Wakefield." The reviewer, Margaret" Cole, remarks that the s.uthpr idealises her great grandfather, and she goes on to say: "In her rather fiowerily-written book, Wakefield's opponents are all devils; but there is no doubt that Wakefield, like Lord Durham, the maker of Canada, was a bad-tempered, cantankerous, and unreasonable fellow. Tlie fact that he was personally absolutely disinterested probably made Mm more difficult; a bad-tempered idealist is generally a harder person to deal with than a badtempered crook! But the fact remains that Wakefield was right, and his opponents wrong, and that all that has happened since his death has confirmed his insight. This book should be read; it is expensive, it is longer than it need be, and Miss O 'Connor's history is occasionally inaccurate. But Wakefield was a great'man, and he deserves to be better known. Your public library should be made to buy the book, and you should read it."