“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”
| + + + | Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained. In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 488. Je. 15, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 401. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w. |
“The fifth volume has the merits and defects of the rest.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Bryce, James. Constitutions. [*]$1.25. Oxford.
This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions; Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia.