Ransom, Caroline Louise. Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. [*]$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources; from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.
“It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to the student of archæology.”
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“The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful research and sound scholarship.”
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“The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is almost better, the application of much common sense.”
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| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w. |
“A work of scholarly research in a limited special field.”
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