A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artistic life attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi, and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
Whiting, Lilian. [Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.] **$2.50. Little.
6–42359.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 15. Ja. ’07. |
“The historian or he who would present economic and political conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature. And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”
| + + − | Arena. 37: 211. F. ’07. 2190w. |
“It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and original study.”