“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w. |
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w. |
[*] Hall, Jennie. Men of old Greece. [†]$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.
[*] “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w. |
Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia. [*]$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.