Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor Dill.” B. Perrin.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w. |
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
| + − | Spec. 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w. |
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. [From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.] **$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal conclusions and generalizations.
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”