Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their pet cafés, pelting each other in the fete des fleurs, or enjoying the more serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their own distinctive atmosphere.
“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and Monte Carlo, and so forth.”
| + | Acad. 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that make his volume most entertaining reading.”
| + | Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 317. S. 2, ‘05. 490w. |
“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1350w. |
“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay and the picturesque.”