| + − | Nation. 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w. |
“The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w. |
Roberts, Margaret. Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.
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“St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable woman.”—N. Y. Times.
“We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its class which we have seen.”
| − − − | Acad. 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w. |
“An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”