A Poem in Six Books. Edited by Hermann Kunst, Philol. Professor.
The Tatler in Cambridge.
“One could quote for ever, if a Foolscap Sheet were inexhaustible; but I must beg my Readers, if they want to have a great Deal of Amusement, as well as much Truth beautifully put, to go and order the Book at once. I promise them they will not repent.”
The Examiner.
“The demoralizing influence of our existing aristocratic institutions, on the most gifted and noblest members of the aristocracy has never been so subtly and so powerfully delineated as in ‘Olrig Grange.’”
The Pall Mall Gazette.
“‘Olrig Grange,’ whether the work of a raw or of a ripe versifier, is plainly the work of a ripe and not a raw student of life and nature.... It has dramatic power of a quite uncommon class; satirical and humorous observation of a class still higher, and a very pure and healthy, if perhaps a little too scornful, moral atmosphere.”
The Spectator.
“The story is told in powerful and suggestive verse. The composition is instinct with quick and passionate feeling, to a degree that attests the truly poetic nature of the man who produced it.... The author exhibits a fine and firm discrimination of character, a glowing and abundant fancy, a subtle eye to read the symbolism of nature, and great wealth and mastery of language, and he has employed it for worthy purposes.”
The Academy.