+ Review 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 120w
“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of essays.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w The Times [London] Lit Sup p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w
GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS. Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4
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“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar; Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice; Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.
+ Booklist 17:150 Ja ’21
“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever illustrations.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p13 D 8 ’20 310w