+ – Outlook. 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
Hare, Christopher. Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition teems with minute typographical errors.”
+ + – Atlan. 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w. + Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.
Hare, Christopher. Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50. Scribner.
“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel, the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift, picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and Catalonia.”—Spec.
“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be trusted.”
– – Ath. 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.
“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who lived at the same time as Isabella.”