| + | R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w. |
“This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J. M. Gaines.
| + | Yale R. 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w. |
Zimmern, Helen. Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–6779.
“Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing, she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors. dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 133. My. ’07. S. |
“Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation must be given to the unusually complete index.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w. |