Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn. Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.
Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.
Lamia, pseud. See Austin, Alfred.
Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard. What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.
“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”
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“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.
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“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”