Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + | Forum. 36: 401. Ja. ‘05. 840w. |
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language. Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his imagination.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 670w. |
Muther, Richard. Jean François Millet. [*]$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,” gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 860w. |
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”