“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful gift. He has invented a new sensation.”
+ + – Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”
+ – Spec. 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair. Sicily. **$1. Dutton.
The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St. Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and photographs.
“In general the practical information which it contains has been brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w. + + Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style. The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any necessity of increasing the text.”