| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w. |
“The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.
| − + | Dial. 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w. |
“The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w. |
“Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”
| − + | Lond. Times. 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w. |
“The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of history written by one who has not saturated himself with its materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in [the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s writings.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w. |
“Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”