New York and London
By R. DE MAULDE LA CLAVIÈRE
WOMEN OF THE RENAISSANCE
A Study of Feminism. Translated by George Herbert Ely. 8°. With portrait. net, $3.50
“We have only admiration to bestow upon this most intricate and masterly analysis of the great feminine revolution of the sixteenth century … There are chapters that we find ourselves wishing everybody might read; the admirable essay, for instance, on the ‘Embroidery of Life,’ and that other chapter discussing the influence of Platonism….”—Athenæum, London.
“Everything is so brightly, so captivatingly important in this volume, the search into the past has been so well rewarded, the conclusions are so shrewd and clever, the subject is so limitless, yet curiously limited, that as history or as psychology it should gain a large public.”—Bookman.
THE ART OF LIFE
Translated by George Herbert Ely. 8°. (By mail, $1.85) net, $1.75
There is no one to whom Buffon’s phrase, Le style c’est l’homme même, may be more justly applied than to M. de Maulde. His work is absolutely himself; it derives from his original personality and his wide and sure learning an historical value and a literary charm almost unique. He is a wit with the curiosity and patience of the scholar, and a scholar with the temperament of the artist. The sparkle and humour of his conversation are crystallised in his letters, the charming expression of a large and generous nature.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS