Daily Chronicle.—“Of haunting beauty.”
Academy.—“His book is a fine one, and we think it will live.”
Bookman.—“Work which deserves to live.”
Punch.—“Rises are freely predicted in Kernahans.” (Mr. Punch on “The Literary Stock Exchange.”)
Mr. I. Zangwill.—“A genius for poetical and spiritual allegory.”
Truth.—“No one approaches Mr. Kernahan in the sincerity and intensity of his imaginative flights. For myself I can say that I have read Visions with the keenest pleasure. They have the penetrating and the revealing power of Ithuriel’s spear.... Extraordinarily powerful.”
Morning Post.—“The prose is fascinating, the matter is important to every thinking man, the treatment is so attractive that one is compelled to read the book from cover to cover at once. Studies in which the imagination takes strong wings, written in prose that is both masculine in quality and haunting.”
Globe.—“A brilliant success.”
Daily Telegraph.—“Great reverence and much literary power.”
Athenæum.—“Of singular beauty and tenderness, but at the same time full of critical insight.”