| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a careful student.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers. About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”
| + + − | Spec. 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w. |
Moncrieff, A. R. Hope. [Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer], with 75 il. in col. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–171.
Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the “enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | Nation. 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w. |