“With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are very badly drawn.” W. T. S.
| − + | Acad. 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w. |
“Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist, without special connexion in his mind with history.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w. |
“In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.
| − + | Dial. 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of interest and vivacity.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w. |
“While he has performed his task with thoroughness and conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one naturally expects with this subject.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w. |