6–16205.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and animation.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w. |
Rodd, Sir James Rennell. Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–29135.
What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished, namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue.... The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices, the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a map ... and an index.” (Dial.)
“It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w. |