+ Sat. R. 101: 270. Mr. 3, ’06. 1500w.
“The treatment is detailed, technical, and except to the specialist, very dry.”
+ – Yale R. 15: 338. N. ’06. 160w.
Lang, Andrew. Sir Walter Scott. **$1. Scribner.
Thoro familiarity with Scott’s life and surroundings, with all the Abbotsford Mss., and with the details of Scottish life and history, has equipped Mr. Lang for an undertaking that does not claim to rival Lockhart’s, only to compress “the essence of Lockhart’s great book into small space, with a few additions from other sources.”
“We venture to think that Scott’s admirers will find much that is new and more that is freshly put in this biography, which is permeated by a sympathy and understanding of which praise would be an impertinence. There is only one aspect of the book to which we would draw attention, and that in the way of homologating rather than criticising what is said.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 280. Mr. 24, ’06. 950w.
“We have one complaint to make: it is really too bad of experts like Mr. Lang and his publishers to produce a book without an index.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 413. Ap. 7. 1680w.