Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.
Kobbé, Gustav. [Loves of great composers.] [*]$2.50. Crowell.
In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w. | |
| * | + + | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “Two charmingly written volumes.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w. |