The Westminster Gazette has reviewed “My German Year” as “a vivid, attractive, and really informing volume,” and also as “wise, well-informed, and very readable, with some delightful fresh information and shrewd criticisms.” Also saying: “We close ‘My German Year’ with a feeling of gratitude for very good entertainment all through, and with a sense that though on a good many minor points the writer is led by her enthusiasm to see matters in a far too roseate light, she has used her brain and her eyes to good purpose during her ‘German Year,’ and has written a book which suffers in no way by the fact that the last few years have seen the publication in this country of several volumes on the same subject.”
The Evening Standard (also a lengthy notice) said: “We have seldom read a more interesting book than ‘My German Year.’ Miss Wylie’s words are often bitter to the taste, still more bitter very often is what she leaves unsaid, the obvious inferences she hands on to us to draw, but it is all extremely salutary, and should be read by every householder in the land.”
MY ITALIAN YEAR
By RICHARD BAGOT
AUTHOR OF “CASTING OF NETS,” “A ROMAN MYSTERY,” “DONNA DIANA” “THE LAKES OF NORTHERN ITALY,” “THE HOUSE OF SERRAVALLE,” ETC.
With 25 Illustrations
Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net
Daily Mail.—“It is this new Italy—the country of the future and not of the past—which forms the subject of Mr Bagot’s absorbingly interesting pages. Twenty years’ residence in the country and a sound knowledge of its language have enabled Mr Bagot to penetrate deeply into the character not only of the Italian in general, but of the numerous races that form the Italian nation; to form a just estimate of Italian institutions, politics, social life, customs, and aspirations. He does this with absolute impartiality, distributing praise and blame from the vantage-point of his exceptional experience. For Mr Bagot appears to have explored every corner of the country, and to have associated with every class of its population.”
Daily Telegraph.—“It is a thoughtful, knowledgeful book that Mr Bagot has given us, and one that intending visitors to Italy will do well to read and ponder over.”
Daily Graphic.—“Mr Bagot’s book is a highly interesting and sympathetic description of Italian life in all its phases.”