“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”
+ Acad. 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.
“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”
– – Lond. Times. 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.
“It is a record of scandals.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.
Williams, Hugh Noel. [Queens of the French stage.] *$2.50. Scribner.
“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”
+ Acad. 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w. Spec. 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.