| + | Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘03. 460w. |
“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 418. My. 25, ‘05. 1270w. |
“Mme. Waddington in Italy is not perhaps Mme. Waddington at her best.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1230w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w. |
“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety. Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like malice or scandal.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its class.”