| + + — | Outlook. 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w. |
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
| + + | R of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w. |
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think, have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is interesting and delightful.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w. |
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History of European morals.’”
| + + + | Westminster Review. 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w. |
Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope. Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”