| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w. |
“If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor points.”
| + + − | Ath. 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w. | |
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w. |
“The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial temperament.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w. |
“The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively handled.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w. |
“The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be skipped by those really interested in local government.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w. |
“The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should become a classic.”