“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”
| + + + | Cath. World. 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w. |
“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w. |
“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.
| — | Dial. 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w. |
“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w. |
“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w. |