“There is much wit and many clever scenes in the story.”
+ Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 170w.
Lang, Andrew. [John Knox and the reformation.] *$3.50. Longmans.
“Its ‘saeva indignatio’ may not always be earnest, but the work is a painful contribution to the literature of exposure.” Francis A. Christie.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 371. Ja. ’06. 1230w.
“The book is rather a criticism of other biographies than a biography itself, and herein lie at once its value and its limitations. Yet the book has many merits, though it is not free from casual errors. It should always be read with the ordinary lives of Knox, and should not be read without one or the other of them.” A. F. Pollard.
– + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 163. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
“In a life of Knox his blunders as an historian and his vagaries as a politician must have a place, but that must be at least a little lower than the place set apart for his work as a reformer and his policy as an ecclesiastical statesman. And, when his words and actions are subjected to criticism, the toleration of history demands that these should be seen in light of the sixteenth century.” John Herkless.
– + Hibbert J. 3: 819. Jl. ’06. 2380w.
“He has let rather too much cleverness and subtlety creep into his book.”