“It is a creditable piece of popular biography, founded on a careful study of the best authorities, and making no concessions to readers whose sole appetite is for scandal relieved by domestic sentiment.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 6. Jl. 6. 1490w. |
“Although Miss Taylor affects the pose of the historian, let not the unwary be taken in; she clearly has done little else than get together enough picturesque materials for her purpose.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 210w. |
“The chief events of Hortense’s life are traced at length in these two-volumes by a biographer almost too discreet and conscientious for a task which leads her through such worlds of gossip, back-stair politics, of queer people and gimcrack pretenders.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 434. S. 28, ’07. 1540w. |
Taylor, J. A. Robert Southwell, S. J., priest and poet. *70c. Herder.
“A truthful and forcible sketch of the most widely known and most interesting of the heroic band that gave their lives for the faith under Elizabeth.”—Cath. World.
“Notwithstanding its aloofness from sympathy with Southwell’s cause, this short biography does full justice to the holiness of the man, to his remarkable and winning character; and does not slur over the baseness of the creatures who hunted him to death. The simple style of the narrative sets forth, more adequately than would florid periods, the grandeur of the man and his deeds.”