FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE. Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford 937
(Eng ed 20–11698)
“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history; parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J
“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren
+ Class J 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w
“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.
+ Eng Hist R 35:614 O ’20 290w
“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have nothing to do but to listen and learn.”
+ − Spec 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w + Springf’d Republican p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)