JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.—“We make no doubt that Professor Roberts’s earlier books—Longinus on the Sublime and The Three Literary Letters of Dionysius—are known to those of our readers who are serious students of Greek. We believe they have done a good deal already to restore ancient criticism to the place which it used to hold. The present volume is a worthy companion to the other two.”
Professor R. Y. Tyrrell in HERMATHENA.—“This edition is of wide scope and excellent design. It includes an Essay on Greek Prose Style, a full summary of the treatise itself, and a careful treatment of the difficult questions concerning its date and authorship. The fact that this is the first English text and the first English translation of a very valuable and interesting work gives it an added importance, and opens up what will be a new field for many scholars.... The translation, which is exceedingly vigorous, elegant and ingenious, has one other signal merit: it never ‘hedges’: the translator never hides a doubt about the meaning under ambiguous language; he leaves no uncertainty about the meaning which he attaches to the text; and in the few places where we may venture to take a different view we feel that there is always something to be said for the version which we reject.... Dr. Roberts has a very keen eye and ear for literary beauty; and the treatise affords ample scope for the employment of his wide and various knowledge of modern literature.... The De Elocutione is a treatise full of interesting and suggestive comment; and all lovers of literature owe their best thanks to Professor Roberts for the edition of it which he has put in their hands.”
The volume has also been favourably reviewed by the following Continental scholars: Dr. Ph. Weber (Neue Philologische Rundschau), M. Théodore Reinach (Revue des Études Grecques), Professor Amédée Hauvette (Revue Critique d’histoire et de littérature), Professor Ch. Michel (Revue de l’Instruction publique en Belgique), and Professor Giovanni Setti (La Cultura).