| + + | Acad. 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w. |
“The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs with which they are illustrated.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w. |
“This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w. |
“Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more graphic by reproductions of photographs.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w. |
“Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature of much that has been written as well as by the length of the bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.
| + + | Nature. 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w. |
“Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”