“The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but one of the practising architect.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w. |
“Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook in the maze of practical details.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w. |
“One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w. |
“It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been an oversupply of late.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w. |
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian. Desert and the sown; a record of travel from Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.
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