“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which he moved.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w. |
“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.
| − | Eng. Hist. R. 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w. |
“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained to the end.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w. |
“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”
| + − | Nation. 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w. |
“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w. |