Review of reviews and world's work . he remembersof his boyhood days in Denmark. His descrip-tions of the simple customs and pastimes of The Old Town ^ make entertaining readingfor the American boy or girl of to-day. Theillustrations by W. T. Benda are especially ef-fective. For a generation there has been a Verlaine mystery. Just how much of this mystery hasbeen due to the lack of biography and an under-standing of the troubled years in Paris, duringwhich the absinthe poet lived hh strangelyincoherent life, is perhaps for the first timecleared up by a rather elaborate.—often tedious-ly elabor
Review of reviews and world's work . he remembersof his boyhood days in Denmark. His descrip-tions of the simple customs and pastimes of The Old Town ^ make entertaining readingfor the American boy or girl of to-day. Theillustrations by W. T. Benda are especially ef-fective. For a generation there has been a Verlaine mystery. Just how much of this mystery hasbeen due to the lack of biography and an under-standing of the troubled years in Paris, duringwhich the absinthe poet lived hh strangelyincoherent life, is perhaps for the first timecleared up by a rather elaborate.—often tedious-ly elaborate,—volume by Deputy Lepelletier. arepresentative from Paris in the French Parlia-ment. It was to this statesman that the poet,upon his death bed, confided the task of defend-ing his reputation. The influence of the seventeenth and eigh- ^Thp Old Town. Bv Jacob A. Rils. (jO pp . ill. .1:2. » Pail Verlaine. His Life and Work. Bv EdmondLepelletier. Duffleld. 403 ill. $,o. 756 THE AMERICAN REI^IEIV OF RE^IElV^.. WILLIAM EDWIX HARTEPOLE LECKY. Frontispiece (reduced) from A Memoir of W. E. , written by liis wife, Elizabeth Lecky. teenth century woman in France upon the publiclife and the arts and letters of the period isstrikingly set forth in a number of biographicalvolumes treating of eminent leaders of politicaland literary salons, which have recently comefrom the press in this country and in England. Madame, who was Elizabeth Charlotte,daughter of Carl-Ludwig, Elector of the Pala-tinate, became the friend of Louis XIV,King of France, and for years was the main-
Size: 1368px × 1826px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidreviewofrevi, bookyear1890
