Daily Telegraph.—“He writes fluently, and he has genuine enthusiasm for his subject, and an intimate acquaintance with his work. Moreover, the book has been submitted to Mr Kipling, whose characteristic letter to the author is set forth on the preface.… Of Kipling’s heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting” (extract follows).
Globe.—“It has at the basis of it both knowledge and enthusiasm—knowledge of the works estimated and enthusiasm for them. This book may be accepted as a generous exposition of Mr Kipling’s merits as a writer. We can well believe that it will have many interested and approving readers.”
Scotsman.—“This well-informed volume is plainly sincere. It is thoroughly well studied, and takes pains to answer all the questions that are usually put about Mr Kipling. The writer’s enthusiasm carries both himself and his reader along in the most agreeable style. One way and another his book is full of interest, and those who wish to talk about Kipling will find it invaluable, while the thousands of his admirers will read it through with delighted enthusiasm.”
Bret Harte: a Treatise and a Tribute. By T. Edgar Pemberton, Author of “The Kendals,” “Life of Sothern,” etc., with a new portrait of Mr Bret Harte and a Bibliography. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
Spectator.—“A highly interesting book.”
Daily Mail.—“An interesting biography full of good things.”
Sunday Sun.—“A pleasant and interesting memoir.”
Whitehall Review.—“a truly delightful book.… Written in no mean spirit of adulation, it is a well-balanced, characteristic, and fair estimate of a personality and a mind far above the average.”
Sunday Special.—“It is an intensely interesting life story Mr Pemberton has to tell.… This little volume is eminently readable, full of excellent stories and anecdotes, and is in short a very admirable commentary upon the work of one of the brightest masters of the pen that the great continent oversea has produced.”