“In style and treatment the book shows to the full the qualities so long familiar in Mr. Lea’s work—the same wealth of detail, the same direct dependence on the sources, the same avoidance of polemics and all rhetorical amplification. It is everywhere the work of one who still believes that the history of jurisprudence is the history of civilization.” George L. Burr.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 887. Jl. ’06. 1810w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An accurate and complete survey of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 351. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) Critic. 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book of the year which touches the high-water mark of scholarship in the flood of European histories is H. C. Lea’s ‘Inquisition in Spain.’ Once again this man, who is the pride of American scholars, outdoes the European historians in their own field.”
+ + + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.) + + Lit. D. 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is refreshing to have at hand a substantial amount of definite fact in a field where previous writers have given us so much passionate and unsupported generalization.”
+ + Nation. 82: 385. My. 10, ’06. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This severely analytical method of dealing with the subject is somewhat repellent even to the trained reader.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)