+ Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 100w
“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”
+ Freeman 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w
“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is without doubt.” H. S. G.
+ New Repub 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w
“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a certain achievement.”
+ N Y Times p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the effervescence of his spirits.”
+ − Review 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”