“It may fairly be called the last word on the subject.” Grey Scout.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 197. F. 16, ’07. 1310w.
=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4. Appleton.
The whimsical, rhapsodical, patriotic woman of temperament is revealed in almost every line of these memories. The autobiography “exhibits the true woman in clearer relief than it does the largely mythical superwoman whom it labors to depict. Rich as it is in minor details and vivacious descriptions it adds but little to the common knowledge of the career of the best advertised actress in the world.” (Nation.)
“In her very characteristic and brightly entertaining memoirs we have on every page the Sarah Bernhardt of the stage, the eccentric and versatile woman of genius, very much as she is already known to the world.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“Self-revelations such as these give, as we think, a real documentary value to this first volume of Sarah Bernhardt’s memoirs, though no doubt the general reader will prefer the narratives of travel and adventure wherein everything appears to be turning around in a mad farandole.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1600w.
“One of the most successful books ever written. To tell the plain truth, the monstrous egotism of the book greatly weakens the pleasurable impression created by its vivacity, its cleverness, and its abundance of interesting material.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 403. O. 31, ’07. 1140w.
“An invaluable addition to the library, dramatic and otherwise.” Anna Marble.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 733. N. 16, ’07. 2230w.
+ + =Outlook.= 77: 611. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 2: Ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Macmillan.
This second volume of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey of London” treats of the ecclesiastical life, institutions and influence of the Norman and Plantagenet centuries. The first eight chapters deal with the rise of London’s municipal government.
“When the nature of the material permits the story is unfolded with agreeable literary effect. We notice here and there a lack of references, usually associated with a passage of minor historical importance. These pages form a good example to tesselated history.”