“The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w. |
“There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends, but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most confusing.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w. |
“The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”
| + | Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w. |
Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds). Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.
“This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She became a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied. Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them.... In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.
“There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing, and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”