+ − Ath p519 O 15 ’20 880w
“When all is said this book serves its purpose. It is readable; it contains the facts; it gives personal anecdotes; it has a host of portraits in character and out; it provides a variety of points of view.”
+ N Y Times p7 D 19 ’20 1250w
“A most interesting book about a great actor. Throughout, it is informal and lively.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:648 D 29 ’20 90w
“Lady Tree’s portrait of Tree is the most vivid and the most life-like the world is likely to possess.”
+ Sat R 130:318 O 16 ’20 920w
“The whole book—all the contributions from all the different sources are in the mass so sparkling, that it is clear that for so many hands to write so amusingly, they must have been inspired by a thoroughly witty and amusing subject.”
+ Spec 125:569 O 30 ’20 1150w Springf’d Republican p8 O 23 ’20 40w Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 8 ’21 150w
“It is an amusing macédoine, never insipid, giving all the flavours of the subject, without perhaps any one flavour that can be called dominant. And that is right, for Tree’s was a ‘mixed’ temperament, and his art was a good deal ‘mixed’ too.”