Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Except in the account of the death-scene, which (based on Grimarest) is related with passion, good sense and good feeling, it lacks inspiration.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 644. My. 25. 540w. |
“One may challenge Mr. Chatfield-Taylor’s presentation of his materials in these and other points, and still assert that his book is the best that we have so far in English for the general reader who wishes to know the life and work of the master of comedy.” A. G. Canfield.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 2130w. |
Taylor, Ida Ashworth. Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783–1837. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
A fair-minded study of the life of Napoleon’s step-daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais. The author says “Hortense has not been permitted to make her defense to the public. Her confessions, perhaps her justifications, remain as she left them, unprinted, and it is upon the data supplied by contemporaries that posterity must form its conclusions.”
“There was need of a book in English on Queen Hortense. Miss Taylor has fairly supplied it and incidentally has furnished the best complete account of her in any language.” George M. Dutcher.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 13: 137. O. ’07. 790w. |