| + + | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w. |
Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-. Home life in France. [*]$2.50. McClurg.
Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”
“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing only to the cultivated few.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w. |
[*] “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w. |
[*] “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.