+ Spec. 97: 403. S. 22, ’06. 1720w.
Van Millingen, Alexander. [Constantinople: painted by Warwick Goble.] *$6. Macmillan.
“Such a subject makes exceptional demands upon both painter and describer, and it says much for Mr. Warwick Goble and Professor van Millingen that they have risen to their great occasion.... We have seldom seen views which were more successful in imparting the subtle secret of the scenery beloved by every one who has enjoyed the unspeakable privilege of feasting his eyes on the Bosporus and the Seven hills.... Prof. van Millingen ... best known as a learned and authoritative archaeologist ... has contrived to present a sketch of the history and life of the city suggestive of the imagination, not too crowded with facts, yet sufficiently full to embody the impression created by the pictures.... His account of the modern inhabitants is ... both sympathetic and life-like, besides being decidedly readable.”—Ath.
“The virtue of the book lies more often in suggestion and stimulation than in finality.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 693. Je. 9. 1860w.
“In spite of an evidently conscientious desire on the part of the collaborators to do justice to the world-famous capital of the Ottoman Empire ... it can scarcely be claimed that the result is a complete success, either from the artistic or the literary point of view.”
– Int. Studio. 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 270w.
“Such care has been taken to connect the pictures and the text, that one scarcely knows whether the text was made to fit the pictures or the pictures to fit the text, but whichever it be the harmony is remarkable.”
+ + Nation. 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 1180w.