“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.
[*] “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w. |
[*] “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly imagine before reading the book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another matter.” Walter Littlefield.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him ascend the heights.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”