“As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w. |
“Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and partial.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w. | |
| Sat. R. 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w. |
* Bryant, W. W. History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.
“The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial evolution.”—Ath.
“Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w. |
“Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.”