A contribution to history. “The book begins, as careful biographies should begin, with a due account of Eugénie’s grandparents, leading up to the birth of Eugénie, her early days, and eventual marriage with Napoleon III., through the machinations of her mother and the help of her own beauty.” (Acad.)
“The present book is a painstaking collection of facts about the life of the Empress Eugénie, written without enthusiasm and without distinction. From one point of view it is an improving book, from another a very blasphemy against that most mysterious, most sacred of all things—life.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 841. Ag. 31, ’07. 960w. |
“If not treated as history may be commended.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 2: 208. Ag. 24. 910w. |
“Agreeably written, clearly printed, and handsomely illustrated, the book is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care and painstaking research in its preparation; but one might have expected that the restraint imposed upon the biography by the Empress Eugénie’s being still alive would have been offset by the advantage of some little help from her in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her eventful history.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w. |
“The book is well done, and the portraits and views are well selected.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 917. D. 14. ’07. 90w. |