| − + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w. |
“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w. |
“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w. |
“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w. |
“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”
| − − | Sat. R. 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w. |
“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”