Review 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 180w
“The redeeming features of the book are its truth to English life and its brevity. It may be added also that the delineation of the characters, such as they are, is quite skilfully done but there is nothing in the book as a whole which the world could not spare without any great sense of loss.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 130w
“So tense and subtilized is the atmosphere of Mrs de Sélincourt’s story that we fear to breathe lest we should break its charm. Indeed, the story is its atmosphere. It seems to emanate from and surround its characters like the perfume of flowers. Yet they affect us at length as if they were mere automata.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p301 My 13 ’20 950w
“The story is told with fine artistry and will appeal to discriminating readers with a taste for mental analysis.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:196 N ’20 140w
SEGUR, SOPHIE (ROSTOPCHINE) comtesse de.[[2]] Old French fairy tales. il *$5 Penn
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“An octavo with full-page plates, both in color and in black and white, by Virginia Frances Sterrett, is ‘Old French fairy tales,’ compiled by Comtesse de Segur.” (Springf’d Republican) “The titles are: Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon; Good little Henry; Princess Rosette; The little grey mouse and Our son.” (Booklist)