“It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful eyes’ and the like.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w. |
“Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w. |
Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo. Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements, schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions, entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.
“Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters, which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.