“He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and interesting.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w. |
“His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of humanity.”
| + | Ind. 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w. |
“It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor Oman exhibits marked ability.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w. |
Omar Khayyam. [Rubaiyat]: a new metrical version; rendered into English from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes. **$1.50. McClurg.
6–41520.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur, should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to FitzGerald’s.”