“Innes wisely discarded the stiff chronological method and the purely narrative style, and adopted a judicious combination of narration and description.” George L. Beer.
+ + Critic. 48: 451. My. ’06. 120w.
“He gives ... everything that the student wants by way of reference. The narrative itself is written with great judgment and full grasp of the subject. Moreover it is eminently readable.” James Gairdner.
+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 372. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“The product of honest labor over authentic materials, well pondered and fused, with no little literary skill.”
+ + Ind. 60: 801. Ap. 5, ’06. 650w. + + – Lit. D. 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“It may appear invidious to institute a comparison between two books each of which is admirable in design and workmanship, but, while Mr. Innes’s volume is quite adequate to the purposes of the series, we have found it somewhat less carefully wrought than Mr. Davis’s account of English life under the Normans and Angevins.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 263. Mr 29, ’06. 590w.
“A serious, sincere, direct, and graphic narrative in which Tudor England stands revealed in all its strength, its weakness, and its possibilities.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 40. My. 3, ’06. 530w.