| + + | Science, n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w. |
“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson). Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)
[*] “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for its literary style as well.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Altogether this is a delightful book.”
| + | Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”