“This second volume is inferior in interest to the first, owing to the lesser importance of its subject-matter.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1376. D. 5, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“This volume is one of exceptional readableness.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 271. Ag. 24, ’07. 2480w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The Comtesse de Boigne is a good talker, and we cannot have too much of her. She is not as piercingly clever as Madame du Deffand, or as steely in her philosophical content as Madame Geoffrin, or as sensitive as Madame de Beaumont, or as sensible as Madame d’Epinay. But she is what the frontispiece tells us—a shrewd, sagacious, witty, unexaggerative Frenchwoman, with enough heart to serve our turn and enough experience to make her wise—not enough, perhaps, to make her lovable. She may have been more trenchant than profound, but to quarrel with her is impossible.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 188. Je. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The work contains much distinguished trifling, and is interesting for desultory reading or as a mine for quotation.”
| + | Nation. 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The appendix is stored with some interesting correspondence, which the judicious editor has carefully sifted from the text in order to make the latter coherent. Everywhere his literary skill and historical knowledge are in evidence but never intrusive.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 509. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.) |