“Mr. Stobart does a real service when he gives the reading but non-expert public this fine volume, embodying the latest results of research, blending them, too, into as agreeable a narrative as we have met with for a long while.... There is not a dull line in his book. He has plenty of humour, as a writer needs must have who is to deal with men from the human standpoint.... It is beautifully produced, and the plates, both in colour and monochrome, are as numerous and well-chosen as they are striking and instructive.”--THE GUARDIAN. “Mr. Stobart has produced the very book to show the modern barbarian the meaning of Hellenism. He exhibits the latest discoveries from Cnossus and elsewhere, the…
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