“Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the eighteenth century in France.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w. |
“If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed, significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w. |
“The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w. |
“With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book makes a sufficiently striking impression.”
| − + | Spec. 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w. |
* Haggard, Henry Rider. Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII. †$1.50. Longmans.
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