Critical Evaluation
Critics have generally been kind to this book, perhaps because they realize how difficult it is to write a biography on an insignificant subject. The Encyclopædia Britannica, for instance, calls the book "an entertaining account of Story's life in Rome." James' evocation of old Rome and the Italian countryside has been praised as charming and lovely, much like his essays in Italian Hours.
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