A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium; part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are Latin in spirit and treatment.”
+ Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w. Dial. 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales from Greece.’”
+ – Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile intelligence.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”
+ + Spec. 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.
Zueblin, Charles. Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.