摘要：It needs to be said at once that this is a first-rate work. Dr. Bloomfield is well informed, and brings to his task the kind of wisdom which only a dean of the profession could muster, coupling it with a style of writing that is keen and well paced. The book is what might be called a Garrison-Morton in depth; nothing else quite like it has appeared in our time. It may well become a minor classic.
