| + | Ind. 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| Putnam’s. 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w. |
Williams, Hugh Noel. Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–25144.
Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their children.
“On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w. |
“Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little illuminating criticism.”