“While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 379. Mr. 24, ’06. 200w. R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 90w.
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp. [Wives of Henry VIII.] **$4.50. McClure.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 60w. + Critic. 48: 473. My. ’06. 240w.
“There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – Dial. 40: 293. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
“If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief biographies.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
“The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 790w.