Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall). [Friends of Voltaire.] *$2.30. Putnam.
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Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has worked her material into “an anecdotal history,” thru the pages of which is easily discernible pre-Revolutionary thought. The ten men whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot, Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and Condorcet.
“Her book is an agreeable contexture of anecdotes, epigrams and light biographical sketches.”
| + | Acad. 72: 56. Ja. 19, ’07. 1360w. |
“Taste of a sort and talent of a sort are certainly exhibited in its composition: taste to select amusing stories, witty sayings, and lively traits of character; talent to frame out of this material a light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 440w. |
“The book, throughout, is entertaining and helpful to a clear understanding of a momentous and often misunderstood epoch in both history and literature.” Josiah Renick Smith.
| + + | Dial. 43: 58. Ag. 1, ’07. 1180w. |