| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 165. F. 10. 920w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent, and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much that is proper matter for the historian.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic problems which loomed large at this period.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”