| + + | Ind. 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w. |
“One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”
| + + | Nation. 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w. |
“Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing aspects of his theme.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w. |
Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun. Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.
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“This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new material.”—Outlook.
“Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully, as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen that they fairly occupy the field.”