| + − | Spec. 96: 587. Ap. 14, ’06. 1270w. |
Galton, Arthur. Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.
W 7–107.
“Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism. He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis, character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law of separation.”—Cath. World.
“It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr. Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 337. Ap. 6, ’07. 1780w. |
“The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 840w. |
“Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of history.”