+ − =Nation.= 84. 454. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of delight to the casual reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way. If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 335. S. 15, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
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* =Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.= Petrarch: his life, work and times. (Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.
A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald and prophet of the renaissance.
“The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters, to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for, these slight blemishes may be removed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.
The history which forms the background of this volume covers the Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors. “The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int. Studio.)