“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the ‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be detected.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w. |
Dyer, Louis. Machiavelli and the modern state. [*]$1. Ginn.
“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w. |
“A valuable little volume.”
| Am. J. of Theol. 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w. | ||
| Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w. |
“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course of these most interesting lectures.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w. |