| + + | Outlook. 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Armstrong, Sir Walter. Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal academy. [*]$3.50. Scribner.
“A popular reprint of a monumental work on the English portrait painter, first published five years ago, by the greatest living authority on the subject.... Particularly is Sir Walter Armstrong to be congratulated for his fine sense of selection, by which he has drawn what is truthful and distinctive from the early biographies; also for his critical estimates, which have stood the most searching and eager tests of five years of criticism.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Presents in conclusion to a thorough and interesting biography a sympathetic picture of an unsympathetic man, a guarded estimate of a deliberate artist.”
| + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The public is to be congratulated on having so authoritative a work thus brought within reasonable reach while maintaining a high standard of manufacture.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 230w. |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp) gräfin von. [Princess Priscilla’s fortnight.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
The author of “Elizabeth and her German garden” has written of an experience in the life of her grand ducal highness, the Princess Priscilla. “Aided and accompanied by the good old ducal librarian, Priscilla, feeling her ‘soul starved’ in the dull little court, runs away and lives for two miserable weeks the life of a nobody-in-particular. Just what happened, what mischief she did, and how it all ended, the author tells with her own arch humor.... She pricks pretty effectually the cult and cant of ‘simple life,’ its natural collapse being ‘a by-product of the vivacious tale.’” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “We may as well confess at once that Elizabeth has enchanted us again. Either she throws her spell over you, and then you follow with delight wherever she leads: or your temperament resists her spell, and then you take umbrage at her airs, and, in the present volume, at her ragged plot and occasional heaviness of phrase.”