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ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS (Illustrated)
ITALIAN BACKGROUNDS (Illustrated)
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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.
Through this traveler'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.
Through this traveler'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.
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