BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
She is to-day the most promising figure we have. To-morrow is hers. How far she will go it is hard to tell. But with her worldly wisdom, her keen insight, her wit and her fancy, and, above all, her invariable good taste, there is no knowing what the future has in store.—The New York Evening Sun.
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Italian Backgrounds
Illustrated by Peixotto
CONTENTS
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An Alpine Posting Inn A Midsummer Week's Dream The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps What the Hermits Saw |
A Tuscan Shrine Sub Umbra Liliorum March in Italy Picturesque Milan Italian Backgrounds |
Belongs in that small class of books of observation which are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic value is seen by those who have the gift of sight.—The Outlook.
Through this traveller's story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The reader's pulse quickens with an artistic pleasure such as might be aroused by a novel by Thackeray or George Eliot, or an essay by Matthew Arnold or Lowell. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.—The Dial.
