By Geoffrey Mortimer.
PRESS OPINIONS.
Pall Mall Gazette, May 31, 1897:
"... That, of a surety, is an unpleasant indictment; and, having thus genially introduced himself to his reader, the author goes bald-headed for Mrs. Grundy, Mr. Podsnap, and public opinion as voiced according to the oracles of Mrs. Smith and Brown, of Little Muddleton Road, and for all the cherished fetishes of Suburbia."
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, May 30, 1897:
"To persons who like hard hitting, vigorous English levelled at the cant of Grundyism, this book will come as a great treat."
Weekly Times and Echo, May 30, 1897: "'The Blight of Respectability,' by Geoffrey Mortimer, is well worth reading, and by more of us, perhaps, than imagine it. The shoddy god has votaries in England, where one would least expect to find them."