“Relentlessly truthful about herself, she refuses to say anything that could hurt others who still live. Her autobiography ends almost before her artistic career began; but even so it is a wonderfully fascinating record of a fierce, passionate and courageous life, told from the point of view of a woman who has reached a plane of rare serenity and detachment.” E: J. Dent
+ Ath p1294 D 5 ’19 1900w
“This book is a rich and irresistibly vivid panorama. The reader has the pleasure of it that he has of a portrait gallery whose subjects, interesting in themselves, are delineated with comprehension and an unerring instinct of reproduction.” Pitts Sanborn
+ Dial 68:637 My ’20 3300w
“No one can fail to be drawn by the record of that vanished Germany. The psychologist will study these fascinating pages for data of the artistic temperament, its force, its egotism, its limitations, of which it is not itself aware. But no one who begins the book can lay it aside until he reaches the end.”
+ Review 2:182 F 21 ’20 950w
“Of the earlier part we can say little. Despite the fact that the author has a nice turn for observation, an easy style, and a good memory, we feel that much of the material is of too private a nature. It is when the author goes to Germany that the chief interest in the book begins.”
+ − Sat R 128:sup14 N 29 ’19 900w
“She writes of herself for the most part as if she were writing of another person, with a detachment that is almost uncanny. And although music naturally plays a large part in the narrative, these memoirs can be read with the keenest interest by those to whom music is a sealed book.”