| + − | Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w. |
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w. |
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. |
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its aim.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w. |
Hueffer, Ford Madox. Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph. *75c. Dutton.
6–1911.
Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr. Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)