“We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can take no harm from accepting his opinions.”
+ Acad. 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.
“From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact historians.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.
“A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”
+ Ind. 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.
“In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a guide for the period that it treats.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w. N. Y. Times. 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.
“Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always fortunate.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)