“Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which leaves a pleasant taste?”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1414. Je. 13, ’07. 480w. |
“It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style, dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1420w. |
“Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the subject here treated as does this book.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. |
“A most instructive and illuminating book.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w. |
Tuker, M. A. R. [Cambridge]; painted by William Matthison. *$6. Macmillan.
A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)