| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w. |
“It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have the best of her.”
| + | Dial. 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w. |
“By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader of her letters feel, today.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w. |
“The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence, for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w. |
“We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract of time.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w. |
“When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.