"Singularly interesting is this autobiography.... Altogether it is a notable book, and may well be recommended to those who are interested in the intellectual life of our time."—New York Herald.
"Mr. Hare's excellence, apart from felicity of style and directness of method, has ever been conspicuous by the excellence that comes of wide knowledge of his subject, and a keenly sympathetic nature. Alive as he has ever been to responsive emotion, he possesses also a bright humour that seizes upon the discrepancies, the nuances and quaintnesses of whatever comes within the range of his eye and pen. These qualities have made for Mr. Hare a circle of admirers who, while they have sought in his pages no very thrilling passages, have felt steadily the growth of a liking given to an old friend who is always kindly and oftentimes amusing.... Mr. Hare dwells with a rare and touching love upon his mother, and these passages are amongst the most appealing in the book."—Philadelphia Courier.
"Mr. Hare has given us a picture of English social life that for vividness, picturesqueness, and completeness, is not excelled in literature. There is a charming lack of attempt to be literary in the telling of the story—a refreshing frankness and quaintness of expression. He takes his readers with him so that they may breathe the same social atmosphere in which he has spent his life. With their own eyes they see the things he saw, and best of all they have freedom to judge them, for Mr. Hare does not force himself or his opinions upon them."—New York Press.
"Mr. Hare's memoirs are their own excuse for being, and are a distinct addition to the wide and delightful realm of biographical literature."—Chicago Journal.
"It is rarely that an autobiography is planned on so ample a scale, and yet, to tell the truth, there are singularly few of these pages which one really cares to skip."—Good Words.
"A sad history of Mr. Hare's childhood and boyhood this is for the most part, but there were bursts of sunshine in Augustus Hare's life—sunshine shed around him by the kindly, noble-minded lady who is called mother all through these volumes, and for whom his reverence and gratitude deepened with years."—Clifton Society.
"The 'Story of My Life' is no commonplace autobiography, and plunge in where you may, there is something to interest and attract."—The Sketch.
"No one can read these very fascinating pages without feeling that what their author has written is absolutely that which no other would have ventured to say of him, and what not one in a million would have told concerning himself. There is a wonderful charm of sincerity in what he discloses as to his own feelings, his likes and dislikes, his actions and trials. He lays open, with photographic fidelity, the story of his life."—New York Churchman.
"These fair volumes might be labelled the Literature of Peace. They offer an outlook on life observant, and yet detached, from the turmoil of disillusion."—New York Times.