“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”
+ + Nation. 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.
“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.
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Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr. Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds, inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a man worthy of his wife’s love.
“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but when modern civilization seems defective.”
+ Nation. 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.
“The book is eminently readable.”