+ − N Y Evening Post p6 S 18 ’20 1100w
“Too much of the memoirs are snobbery, genealogical dissertations and comments on the author’s own novels and economic studies. He possessed the opportunity for a surprisingly good book but he has not wholly availed himself of it.” H. S. Gorman
− + N Y Times p12 O 3 ’20 2100w
“What the author has given us in his books, with all sincerity, has been, so it seems, not ‘confessions’ by any means, but his real inner thought without compromise or unexpressed reservations. This, rather than its suavity of style, its variety of interests, its numerous personalities, explains the charm of the volume. There is an air of intellectual and moral success and good-breeding about it such as one rarely finds.”
+ No Am 212:713 N ’20 1850w
“His comments and anecdotes are not always agreeable or calculated to give the reader high ideals.”
− Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 220w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:249 S 22 ’20 150w
“This constant didacticism goes far to spoil what is otherwise so good. If only Mr Mallock had expended his energies more exclusively on the descriptive and anecdotal parts of his book, he might have produced a work of rare charm; he has the insight and the literary skill to have done this.”