A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.
“On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is certainly full of ideas.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w. |
“Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman, are in his best vein.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w. |
* Symonds, John Addington. [Wine, women, and song]; being an essay on the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il. *$1.50. McClure.
Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)
“Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A. Symonds’s translations and comments.”