| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w. |
Tilley, Arthur Augustus. Literature of the French renaissance. [*]$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times). There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is hardly so full as might be desirable.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 647. My. 27. 2270w. |
“The critical attitude of our author is judicious and eminently safe.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 215. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1420w. |
“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation. It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes much of little.” Christian Gauss.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 17. Ja. 14, ‘05. 3100w. |
Tindolph, Helen Woljeska. Woman’s confessional. 75c. Life pub.