Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people, religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.
“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best in all this fine series.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 633. Je. 17, ‘05. 770w. |
[*] “Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of inaccuracies.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 620w. |
“The text is almost as fascinating as the illustrations.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 740w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 336. My. 2, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 290w. |
“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 373. Je. 10, ‘05. 1730w. |
“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the people of Rome.”