“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
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“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.
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“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”
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“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w. |
Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. [*]$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)