+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w. Ath. 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.
“The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”
+ Critic. 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w. Dial. 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.
“Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish question.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.
“The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist newspapers.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.
“Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”
+ – Nation. 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w. N. Y. Times. 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.
“Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been written.”