“Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in years.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w. |
“In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits. The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly scholarly spelling of the names.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w. |
“The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader] comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s book.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w. |
“He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even from an Eastern.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w. |
Browne, George Waldo. Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in Venezuela. 75c. McKay.
A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.