“Is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in verse and prose is not half so telling as the illustrations which it accompanies.”
+ – Dial. 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
“The child will be hard to please indeed who cannot find hours of delight in the volume.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
Verrall, Arthur Woolgar. Essays on four plays of Euripides: Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“In ‘Euripides the rationalist’ Dr. Verrall dealt with his author on broad lines; here he takes four of his plays, veritable puzzles, and after showing the absurdity of the common interpretations of them, offers new ones of his own, based on the general view of the poet’s genius which he has formed. He claims to have found for these four plays interpretations reasonable and consistent, in place of the only possible alternative, the assumption that as dramas they are complete failures.”—Ath.
“The notes are of the characteristic Verrallian type, brilliant and scholarly in the highest degree, but fantastic and unconvincing.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ – Acad. 69: 1283. D. 9, ’05. 1750w.