7–29044.
By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history, tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author “deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.” (Spec.)
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w. |
“Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place, being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w. |
“It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in textbook and handbook.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w. |
“There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w. |