“The book is well written and the details judiciously pruned.”
“Like most other histories of the science, this fails to connect with the science of the present day. The book might have been written ten or twenty years ago.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
“We are oppressed with the unscientific slapdash manner in which the author has approached the whole subject of the history of chemistry.”
=Armour, Jonathan Ogden.= Packers, the private car lines and the people. $1.50. Altemus.
“Though professedly an advocate’s presentations on these important questions, it gives the reader the impression of being more straightforward and reliable than much of the ‘unbiased and public-spirited’ criticism does.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 118. F. ’07. 1050w.
“The book as a whole is not convincing.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp), grafin von.= Fraulein. Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. †$1.50. Scribner.
By the author of “Elizabeth and her German garden.” “A German girl writes from Jena to the young Englishman who is at first her lover, and subsequently, after he has broken off the engagement, her friend, and who finally puts an end to the friendship also by insisting on the impossible attempt at renewing their former relations.... Little detached incidents, reminiscences, reflections on life and literature, and so on, form the subject of the letters, which depend for their charm wholly on the personality of the writer.”—Ath.
“It has all the old grace and vivacity, and is free from the suspicion of coldness and heartlessness that occasionally dashed our enjoyment of her earlier books. Her letters are invariably piquant and entertaining, and we may add that they contain much excellent advice and criticism.”
“It is not very much of a story, but that doesn’t greatly matter, because it is Rose-Marie who really interests us all the while, and because her letters are the most delightful compound of bourgeois realism, sentimental fancy, and delicate humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Fraulein Schmidt is a distinct acquisition.”
“It is written with the author’s usual charm.”
“As a work of fiction, the book deserves particular notice for distinction of manner, acuteness of view, and, above all, for the refreshing spirit that animates each letter from the first to the last.”