+ +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.”