“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the stamp of true genius.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w. |
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his work with care and precision.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w. |
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent value.”
| + | Spec. 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w. |
Lang, Andrew. [Homer and his age.] *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)