Volume 10, Number 11 · June 6, 1968
The Last Whig
By J.P. Kenyon
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation and Social Change
by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Harper & Row, 486 pp., $8.95
Trevor-Roper's work is always a challenge to the reviewer; it is brilliant, bitty, and bitchy, and what it all adds up to is difficult to say. His brilliance is never seriously questioned, except by his personal enemies, but is he a brilliant historian? Our sons and grandsons may think not, and though as Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford he is now at the top of the academic tree he has never produced that solid, distinguished corpus of work expected of a man in his position.
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