| + | Outlook. 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 150w. |
“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 170w. |
Besant, Walter. London in the time of the Tudors. [*]$7.50. Macmillan.
“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on ‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s ‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book, originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.
“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.” Arthur Howard Noll.
| + + | Dial. 88: 121. F. 16, ‘05. 1230w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 143. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1450w. |
Best, Kenelm Digby. Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary. [*]$6. Herder.
A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.
“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it with either profit or patience.”