“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The half-tone illustrations are clear.”
+ Ath p193 F 6 ’20 90w
“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers, too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 O 2 ’20 400w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 400w
“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”
+ N Y Times p10 S 12 ’20 2250w
“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding, if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of human rather than technical interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p757 D 18 ’19 3050w