“It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.
| + + | Am. Cath. Q. 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w. |
“That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate references.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w. |
“The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of their value and usefulness.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w. |
“A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written it well.”