The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”
| + | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”