“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
| — | Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion, antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w. |
Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the Roman state.
[*] “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or monotonous.”
| + + | Cath. World. 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w. |
[*] “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from which he draws are not accessible.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w. |