| + | Acad. 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w. |
“Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w. |
“The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it. Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared for.”
| + | Spec. 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w. |
Singleton, Esther. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.
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“By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is persistent enough in search.”—Ind.