Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.
A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.) Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian, Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.
“Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished husband.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w. |
“Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition. And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w. |
“These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding extensionist.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w. |
“The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”