| — | Acad. 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w. |
“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in every chapter.”
| — — — | Ath. 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w. |
“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the importance of its thesis.”
| — | Dial. 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”
| — — | Nation. 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w. |
“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters somewhat more convincing.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w. |
“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great reading crowd.”