“Jowett’s translation is so good that it seems churlish to say that the present rendering is even more perfect, and reads even more like an original composition in English.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 325. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1300w. |
“It may be said in conclusion, that Prof. Stewart’s book—dealing, as it does, with a side of Platonism which has been too much neglected—is the finest contribution to the knowledge of Plato’s thought which has been made in this country of late years.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 1390w. |
“One cannot read Professor Stewart’s discussion without being moved to wonder again and again at the felicitous phrase by which he conveys impalpable emotions, by the fineness with which his perception is pitched to detect frail sympathies.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 3150w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1090w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 155. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w. |
“Though in detail interesting and exegetic, the book does not draw very much to a point, and is perhaps rather overweighted. Mr. Stewart’s translation, it must be said is not as good a representation of the original as Jowett’s.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1320w. | |
| + + — | Spec. 94: 895. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w. |
Platt, Isaac Hull. Walt Whitman. [**]75c. Small.
Mr. Platt’s biography is the outgrowth of partisan beliefs and fancies rather than a development from so-called legitimate biographical material including clews to Whitman’s inner life. The volume is the latest issue in the “Beacon biographies.”