Characteristics / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Characteristics / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Second Impression Now Ready Extra Crown 8vo. 6s. ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN LITERATURE.— A charming book. ... If the delightful wilder- ness which eventually develops into a garden occupies the foreground, there is still room for much else—for children, husbands, guests, gardeners, and governesses, all of which are treated in a very enter- taining manner.” TIMES.—“ A very bright little book—genial, humorous, perhaps a little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright glimpses of nature and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth is the English wife of a German husband, who finds and makes for herself a delightful retreat from the banalities of life in a German provincial town by occupying and beautifying a deserted convent.” SCOTSMAN.—11 The garden in question is somewhere in Germany. ... Its owner found it a wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the reader how. The book is charmingly written. . . . The people that appear in it are almost as interesting as the flowers. . . . Altogether it is a delightful book, of a quiet but strong interest, which no one who loves plants and flowers ought to miss reading.” ACADEMY.—“ ‘ I love my garden ’—that is the first sentence, and reading on, we find ourselves in the presence of a whimsical, humorous, cultured, and very womanly woman, with a pleasant, old-fashioned liking for homeliness and simplicity ; with a wise husband, three merry babes, aged five, four, and three, a few friends, a gardener, an old German house to repose in, a garden to be happy in, an agreeable literary gift, and a slight touch of cynicism. Such is Elizabeth. The book is a quiet record of her life in her old world retreat, her adven- tures among bulbs and seeds, the sayings of her babies, and the discomfiture and rout of a New Woman visitor. . . . It is a charming book, and we should like to dally with it.” GLASGOW HER'ALD.—” This book has to do with more than a German garden, for the imaginary diary which it contains is really a description, and a very charming and picturesque one, of life in a north German country house.” MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—” No mere extracts could do justice to this entirely delightful garden book.” ATHENAEUM.—” We hope that Elizabeth will write more rambling and delightful books. SPEAKER.— Entirely delightful. OUTLOOK.—The book is refreshingly good. It has a good deal of stuff in it, and a great deal of affable and witty writing; and it will bear reading more than once, which, in these days, is saying much.’ MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON 9]
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