[*] “At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
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| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 35. D. ‘05. 210w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
[*] “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of the year.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w. |
Cram, Ralph Adams. Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. [**]$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby, Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh, Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury, York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic standpoint.”
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| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w. |
Cramp, Walter S. Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50. Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth. The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.