“This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster of Tsushima.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w. |
“A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did during these nine months there could not be.”
| + | Spec. 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w. |
Pollard, Albert Frederick. Factors in modern history and their application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.
“Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects ‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the period.” (Ath.)
“Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures. His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”
| + | Acad. 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w. |
“It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”