6–32380.
A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.” (Acad.)
“We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us, are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others provokingly trivial.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
“He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old manuscripts and missals.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 370w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task, particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other authorities.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 340w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction. He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.