“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well, but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w. |
“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their very palaces.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w. |
“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs. Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has handled.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w. |
“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner most attractive to foreign readers.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w. | |
| + | Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w. |
“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w. |