| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w. |
Lützow, Francis, count. Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w. |
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w. |
Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn. Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. [*]$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that have been going on during the last thirty years.”