“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a long time.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w. |
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that good.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w. |
Macdonald, Frederika. Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50. Putnam.
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An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two contemporaries.
“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner. Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of mind.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w. |