“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 686. Ap. ‘05. 240w. (Survey of contents of vol. II.) |
“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”
| + + | Cath. World. 80: 684. P. ‘05. 290w. |
“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great humanist.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 570w. (Review of Vol. II.) |
“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
Erskine, Mrs. Steuart. London as an art city. [*]$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others, and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A. Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings, reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).