“Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these meditations.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
* Budge, E. A. T. Wallis. Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
7–24130.
A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose ancestors built them and worshipped in them.
“Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and, whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The arrangement of the book also might have been better.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w. |
“What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of prosperity.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |