+PRESS OPINIONS.+
_Daily Chronicle_:
Although the title of this book defines its scope, it does not indicate
its main purpose. That is to show that the Celtic race has been
misrepresented by a number of historians, from Mommsen to Froude, as
incapable of self-government; and to prove, by inference, its fitness
for Home Rule.... The major argument is based by Mommsen and his school
on the assumption of permanent distinctions among races; and therefore
Mr. Robertson applies himself, with a large measure of success, to the
task of showing that the theory of innate persistent qualities marking
off one people from another has no ethnological justification.... Mr.
Robertson is able to make short and easy work of the loose writing which
sums up those (imaginary) characters in epithet or epigram.... Mr.
Robertson's lively style and happy allusiveness keep the reader
interested to the end....