| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07. |
“It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”
| + | Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w. |
“Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w. |
“Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | |
| Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w. |
“From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w. |
“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge, he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”