+ Booklist 17:123 D ’20
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE. Day-book of Walter Savage Landor, chosen by John Bailey. *$1.25 Oxford 828
(Eng ed 20–16302)
“Men of taste, men with an ear for the classic note in prose, must always read Landor. That some have failed in this elementary duty is the burden of a delightful essay by Mr John Bailey prefixed to a little collection of Landor’s prose and verse,—a fine quotation for every day in the year, beginning with the famous epitaph on himself, and proceeding with symphonic development to the Latin epitaph on a young scholar. Mr Bailey—himself, as we know from other publications, an agreeable compound of the man of letters and the man of affairs—offers his little book, not as the last word in Landor, but as the first—as the preliminary encouragement to that larger reading it should do much to stimulate.”—Sat R
+ Ath p1037 O 17 ’19 400w + Boston Transcript p11 Ja 31 ’20 550w
“We recommend a course of Landor. In days when the rabble has to be wooed with flattery, it is bracing to the spirit to find one, who, liberal as he called himself, inhabited the mountain tops of life, and, never descending among the wrangling crowds, beckons us continually aloft.”
+ Sat R 128:507 N 29 ’19 1850w
“Charming little book.”