“As an advocate of books, I know of none so well equipped in perspective to give advice as Quiller-Couch; as a precepter, I have met with no one on whom the burden of his task has rested so lightly, so agreeably, so sympathetically, as on him. Out of the fullness of his enjoyment he speaks, and it is refreshing to observe how jealously he tries to rescue the books he loves from the palsied grasp of the pedagog.” M. J. Moses
+ N Y Times p5 Ja 2 ’21 2650w
“Original points of view, apt quotations, and genial play with the subject characterize the volume.”
+ Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w Sat R 130:219 S 11 ’20 1500w + Spec 125:472 O 9 ’20 1050w
“The style is too discursive, there is too much quoting, some of the long sentences puzzle one on first reading. And yet what a professor of literature! Why do not all universities secure men like this King Edward VII professor?”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 6 ’21 570w
“Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his lectures shows that he has the interests of the children and of the young men strongly at heart. His are not the accustomed utterances of the professor of literature at an ancient university. They are not in the great style nor, in their form, are they learned. They abound in irrelevances, with a touch of facetiousness that is often tiresome, and occasionally they breathe the unction of the pulpit rather than the gravity of the chair. The lectures were doubtless more effective in their delivery than in their printed form.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p557 S 2 ’20 3350w
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