“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”
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“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”
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Lee, Sidney Lazarus. Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. [**]$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
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“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
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