+ Theatre Arts Magazine 4:257 Jl ’20 240w
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. Not that it matters. *$2.50 Dutton 814
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“Mr Milne, who was formerly assistant editor of ‘Punch,’ contributed to that weekly many verses and paragraphs about his experiences in the war. He has left ‘Punch,’ chiefly because he wearied of having to be ‘whimsical’ once a week. In this book he writes about a score of subjects,—games, books, thermometers, snobbery, and the seasons.”—Review
“One of the most gracious things about these essays is that Mr Milne knows when to begin and when to stop.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ’20 520w
“No better book for vacation reading has been published this summer than ‘Not that it matters.’”
+ Review 3:173 Ag 25 ’20 280w
“To all that he attempts Mr Milne brings a style of perfect suppleness, ease and grace, albeit possessing that almost excessive informality that Charles Lamb is charged by some with having introduced into English prose. But when he rambles on, struggling with a subject that doesn’t yield much fruit one wishes that Mr Milne would adopt a somewhat severer principle of selection when collecting his writings for the pages of a book.”