Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates. Glimpses of Italian court life: happy days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.
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“Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.
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“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and thoroughly readable.”
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| + | Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w. |
“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”
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“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”