Peixotto, Ernest Clifford. By Italian seas; il. by the author. **$2.50. Scribner.
“The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title, liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian influences.”—Ind.
“Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.
+ Dial. 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we shall know more about it than many who have been there.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”
+ + Nation. 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.
“In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a word-picture or an etching.”