| + + | Dial. 42: 222. Ap. 1, ’07. 580w. |
Reviewed by P. F. Willert.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 164. Ja. ’07. 1200w. |
“Are at once satisfactory and disappointing.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1130w. |
“The result is, on the whole, disappointing. To begin with, notes for lectures generally make poor books, and it is so in this case. Again, the subject is too large for the space in which it is treated, and suffers from overcompression.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 990w. |
“It is, in fact, a primer of history. Every sentence carries with it the conviction of truth, and every page creates an impulse to delve deeper into the subject-matter.” Henry James Forman.
| + + | No. Am. 184: 306. F. 1, ’07. 790w. |
“In the main there can be little question of the soundness of his views, the correctness of his attitude. And, what is not unimportant, the lectures show that, ‘scientific’ historian though he was, he was keenly alive to the human element in history.”