ARMY AND NAYY GAZETTE.
"No one will be wearied with these verses.... We have seldom seen a book more completely suitable to a drawing-room table. Mr. Pennell has avoided Puck's sometimes offensive characteristic."
WELDON'S REGISTER.
"Mr. Pennell's 1 Puck on Pegasus' is one of the most amusing books of verse that we have fallen in with for many a day."
MANCHESTER EXAMINER.
"... There is a high talent in The Thread of Life, showing that Mr. Pennell can do much finer work whenever he may desire to soar above mere trifling."
PRESS.
"Mr. Pennell writes so well that we wish he would take the trouble to write better. He possesses humour and the 'fatal facility' of rhyming.... The Night Mail North and the Derby Day are the two best poems."
ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE.
"Easy running verses, the music of which is as sweet as their rhymes are ingenious and unexpected."