Browne, Edward G. Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di. (Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
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The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,” the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.
“The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of letters.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w. |
“Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and bounteous exposition.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w. |
“More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but light reading.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w. |