“We may be grateful for the publication of Bishop Stubbs’s ‘Lectures on early English history’ ... for biographical reasons, if for no other, for the light they throw on the author’s methods of work. For those who can separate what is obsolete from what is still of value, they are worth much more than this.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 933. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“Their work was done in the hour of their delivery; they can never have been meant for publication, for Stubbs knew how fast and far knowledge had posted since they were written.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 384. Mr. 31. 1200w.
“Mr. Hassall has taken his editorial duties much too lightly.” James Tait.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 763. O. ’06. 790w.
“Students of early English history will find in these pages much that is useful and suggestive, and they will leave them with greater admiration than ever for the learning and the wisdom of the great Bishop of Oxford.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 99. Mr. 23, ’06. 670w.
“Some of the discourses published by Mr. Hassall would hardly have left Stubbs’s own hand for the press in their present unrevised condition, but, as revealing his more spontaneous habits of thought, it is well to have them in their present form.”