+ Ath p1010 O 10 ’19 900w + Booklist 16:232 Ap ’20
“Mr Newman is never dull, even when he is grave.” H: T. Finck
+ Bookm 51:169 Ap ’20 440w
“The chief attraction of Mr Newman’s book, besides its dry humor, is its lack of dogmatism and its corresponding illumination of speculative points.” M. H.
+ New Repub 22:168 Mr 31 ’20 520w + R of Rs 61:224 F ’20 80w
“He differs from a good many fashionable critics in his familiarity with the works of the ancients, and in testing the moderns by standards which these critics are either ignorant of, or refuse to accept. Perhaps the wisest and sanest passages in the book are those in which he differentiates the originality that counts from that which does not.”
+ Spec 123:542 O 25 ’19 1450w
“The book is always interesting, often gay, reading. The essays on the classics are apt, but do not go far enough; that on the grotesque is tentative, that on obituaries might have been omitted. We should have liked some more like ‘Originality in music’ and ‘Quotation,’ and that on Bishop Blougram in partibus, which are full of sound judgments delivered with a light touch.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p545 O 9 ’19 1300w
NEWSHOLME, SIR ARTHUR. Public health and insurance: American addresses. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 614