“This volume contains four essays: the first, occupying more than half the whole work, deals with Tacitus as an historian, the others with subjects connected with the same period carry her through some trying experiences and contain much instruction and not a little entertainment. The Roman ‘Schools of declamation’ are described with admirable point and refreshing humour.... The essay on ‘The Roman journal’ helps us to realize how a worldwide empire managed to survive without newspapers. The discussion of the poet Martial is a specimen of ... lively and illuminating literary criticism.”—Sat. R.
“The young student of the Imperial age ... can get to closer grips with the facts, even if he cannot deal with them so incisively and so elegantly as M. Boissier.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 251. Jl. 13, ’06. 470w.
“The translation is correct in the main, and reads fairly smoothly. We wish that the book might be read and pondered by lovers of Tacitus, writers of history, and any other scholars who are planning learned works.”
+ Nation. 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 670w.
“M. Boissier’s sympathetic essay will please all those who believe in the educational value of the ancient historians and who admire the greatest of them.” Robert L. Schuyler.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 511. Ag. 18, ’06. 1750w. + Outlook. 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 170w.
“If consequently we advise all those students who can do so to read M. Boissier in the original, no offence is intended Mr. Hutchison, whose translation is readable and accurate, and will lead many to work at the subject who would be deterred by a French book.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 115. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w. + Spec. 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1480w.