“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr. Berenson.”

+ —Lond. Times. 4: 269. Ag. 25, ‘05. 630w.

“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”

+ + —Nation. 81: 246. S. 21, ‘05. 1190w.

“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete and firmly to be taken hold of.”

+ +N. Y. Times. 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 590w.

“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems to us in the main unoriginal.”

+ + —Outlook. 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w.

Hutton, Laurence. Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore. [**]$2.50. Putnam.

Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks, play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.