Tschudi, Clara. Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.
Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.
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“Is rather too slight in substance to make a book of.”
| — + | Nation. 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w. |
“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most women’s books of its brand.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 560w. |
“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to the author.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Tuckwell, Rev. William. Reminiscences of a radical parson. $2. Cassell.