“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize those who approach him.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w. |
Maud, Constance Elizabeth. Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 6–392.
“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active, yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified, stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s Provence, he is to be pitied.”
| + + | Acad. 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w. |
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives enchanting glimpses of French life.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 100. Ap. ’07. |