“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent critic.”
+ − Ath p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well informed.”
+ − Booklist 16:305 Je ’20
“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w
“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age. Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most sincere, the least preconceived.”
+ − Nation 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w N Y Times p17 S 12 ’20 50w
“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H. G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart