LUCY, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (TOBY, M. P., pseud.).[[2]] Diary of a journalist. $6 Dutton
“Politicians, statesmen, authors, actors, painters, princes, journalists, social leaders, and men and women in many other professional walks of life throng the pages of Sir Henry Lucy’s volume. It covers a long period of years from 1885 almost to the present day, and it is rich in the personality encountered by a newspaper writer and editor who has come into daily contact with the events and the people of his time. In his previous volume entitled ‘Sixty years in the wilderness,’ Sir Henry Lucy has told a consecutive story of his career, in this latest volume he supplements it with material which resulting from ‘the habit dominant through many years of daily noting interesting events coming within personal observation’ yields ‘a collection personally, politically and historically interesting.’”—Boston Transcript
“Except for a few jokes, we find very little of interest in this record. In his phrases we sometimes recognize the flavour of the official biography. In particular he has one trick very characteristic of those works. It is to make statements about his hero, with the air of suggesting an exceptional virtue, which hold good of practically everybody in the world.”
− + Ath p551 O 22 ’20 330w
“An entertaining book of personal reminiscence.” E. F. Edgett
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“‘Recollections of a journalist’ would perhaps be a more suitable title, and certainly Sir Henry Lucy’s recollections are singularly rich and varied.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 Ja 29 ’21 420w + N Y Times p6 Ja 9 ’21 1450w + − Springf’d Republican p6 D 25 ’20 180w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p664 O 14 ’20)
“The worst that one can say about Sir Henry Lucy’s diary is that no one would ever have suspected it of being a diary if the author had not so labelled it. It has obviously been revised in the light of subsequent events. Why has the book no index? It is just the sort of book that especially needs one.”