“A guide to those interested in this particular branch of floral and botanical study, and is of use also to all lovers of wild flowers. The flower families are illustrated by specimens chosen mainly in the United States east of the Rockies, but with a few also from Canada and California.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.
“The color-studies are notable for their exquisite tints and faithful reproduction of the originals.”
=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.
=v. 1.= “This new collection covers the period extending from the last days of the old monarchy, through the revolution and the first empire, to the restoration of the Bourbons by the allied sovereigns of Europe.... The pages are filled with lively reminiscences and amusing anecdotes in which figure all the famous folk of this wonderful time, men and women distinguished in society, politics, and literature, from Mme. Récamier and Lady Hamilton to Guizot and Lamartine, from Lafayette to Mme. de Staël.”—N. Y. Times.
=v. 2.= “The reminiscences of the Comtesse are continued during the Hundred days, Napoleon’s return from Elba, the events of Waterloo, and the restoration down to the year 1819. During this period the Comtesse returned to England with her father, who was French ambassador. Anecdotes of the English court and aristocratic society abound, and much criticism of English manners and customs, pointed by comparisons with French social and political life, makes highly entertaining reading.”—Sat. R.
“These memoirs are exactly what memoirs should be—to be of value and interest. No attempt is made to write history; there is nothing pretentious about them, nothing dull.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 532. Je. 1, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A volume which, while here and there open to doubts as to accuracy, is everywhere attractive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 64. Jl. 20. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The translator, modestly anonymous, has succeeded in giving to his version the agreeable effect of an original work.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 84. Ag. 16, ’07. 1630w. (Review v. 1.)