“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 609. Ag. ‘05. 550w. |
“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a genuine enthusiasm.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 150w. |
“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 351. My. 16, ‘05. 930w. | |
| + | Ind. 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too impartial in her appreciation.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 640w. |
“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic research and a catholicity of taste.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 910w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 270w. |