Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance, the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes, and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is handsomely illustrated from photographs.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary virtues of restraint and selection.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 370w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 230w. |
[*] “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the grace of the trained writer.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 280w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 180w. |
Whiting, Lilian. Joy that no man taketh from you. [**]50c. Little.
The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right now and here through the great power of love is the problem which Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its energy.”
Whiting, Lilian. Outlook beautiful. [*]$1.25. Little.
In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal, Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the relation of this life to the life eternal.