| + + | Sat. R. 100: 56. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1990w. |
“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an occasional tendency to egotism.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 320. S. 2, ‘05. 1370w. |
Waddington, Mary Alsop King. [Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.] [**]$2.50. Scribner.
The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in 1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.
“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and good-natured mind.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 443. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1500w. | |
| + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 494. Ap. 15. 770w. |
“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 506. Je. ‘05. 780w. |
“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in interest.”