[*] “The ‘Life’ is sufficiently well done.”
| + | Spec. 95: sup. 798. N. 18, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Calvert, Albert Frederick. Moorish remains in Spain. [**]$15. Lane.
A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of Moorish art.
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 280w. |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. [**]$4. Macmillan.
A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I, II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States; vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X, Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol. XII, The latest age.
(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization really clear.” J. H. Robinson.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10:382. Ja. ‘05. 1420w. |
(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.