“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w. |
“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy, custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying results.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w. |
“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible, their author approaches every great movement and every great man from a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w. |
“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w. |
“Scholarly work.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w. |