| + + | Acad. 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w. |
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light opera at that.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w. |
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important, sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w. |
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about pretty faces and dresses.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w. |
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”