“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with success.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is very good.”
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[*] “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the old artist.”
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Crawford, Francis Marion. Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v. [**]$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr. Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
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Crawford, Francis Marion. Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.