“Doubtless every serious reader who picks up this book will find that his curiosity has been aroused rather than that his mind has been set at rest. But, for its scope, this brief volume is fairly well put together.”
+ + – Cath. World. 83: 833. S. ’06. 510w. Lit. D. 32: 945. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.
“Despite the pains he has taken in the investigation of these matters, it cannot be said that he has comprehended the case put forward by historical criticism.”
– Nation. 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w. N. Y. Times. 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.
McKinley, Albert Edward. Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
“Mr. McKinley’s book must of necessity become the standard authority on this subject. The only lack is a bibliography.” Edward Porritt.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 403. Ja. ’06. 1630w.
MacKinnon, James. History of modern liberty. set, **$10. Longmans.
“The first volume consists of chapters chiefly on the governmental institutions of the countries that once formed the Western Roman empire; the second consists of chapters on the course of the reformation in England and Scotland, France and Germany, with a brief chapter of twelve pages on Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A single chapter on mediaeval political thought ‘in relation to liberty,’ which closes the first volume, is balanced in the second by one on the writers on political theory in the sixteenth century. For the rest, the strict adherence to geographical divisions forbids an international and comparative treatment, and no continuity of subject or idea is maintained.”—Ath.