“Seems to be accurate in statement and sound in its literary judgments, generally speaking. The author’s plan leads to a good deal of repetition, which might have been avoided by a better arrangement.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Luce is no blind worshipper, and his criticism is of excellent quality. He has laid students of Shakespeare under very considerable obligations.”
+ + Spec. 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 180w.
Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). [Work of Lucian of Samosata]; trans. by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
“The versions are very readable and at the same time bear comparison with the Greek text.” John C. Rolfe.
+ + Bookm. 23: 214. Ap. ’06. 940w.
Ludlow, James Meeker. Sir Raoul: a tale of the theft of an empire. †$1.50. Revell.
“‘Sir Raoul,’ is a story of the fourth crusade, and of its diversion, through Venetian intrigue, from its primary object to the raid upon Constantinople, which resulted in the brief restoration of the Emperor Alexius, the temporary union of the Greek and Roman churches, and the establishment of the Latin empire of the East under Baldwin.... Mr. Ludlow’s hero is a youthful knight of the Black forest, who suffers disgrace early in his career, and is given out for dead, but who in reality remains very much alive and participates, under an assumed name, in the exciting happenings with which the romance is concerned.”—Dial.