“His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”
+ + – Int. Studio. 29: 88. Jl. ’06. 420w.
“With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly see that architecture is something altogether different from decoration.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 870w.
“The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more effective description of its many beauties.”
+ + Spec. 96: 545. Ap. 7. ’06. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
“There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which detract considerably from the value of the whole.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 447. My. 12, ’06. 1890w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or subjects.”