“To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 429. Jl. 7, ’06. 1190w. + Outlook. 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 80w. + Sat. R. 101: 23. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It may be said that the part would have been greater than the whole. There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have spared.”
+ – Spec. 96: 385. Mr. 10, ’06. 1320w.
Hutton, Rev. William Holden. [Church and the barbarians; being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 461 to A. D. 1003.] *$1. Macmillan.
Within the compass of ten hundred pages the author has essayed to write “from the point of view of one who believes that the church is charged with the duty of preserving and defending a ‘deposit of faith,’ and who assumes that heresy is error and orthodoxy truth.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Hutton is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of his facts, and one feels in reading his pages that one is examining a skeleton, not following the development of an organism. The ecclesiastical bias of the writer is somewhat too evident.”
– Nation. 83: 120. Ag. 9, ’06. 230w. Outlook. 83: 578. Jl. 7, ’06. 70w.
“Mr. Hutton has certainly struggled hard and has no doubt done his best; but the result is a book which takes so much for granted that it will be hardly intelligible to the beginner, and which goes over the ground so rapidly that it will be of little value to the advanced student.”