+ Drama 10:356 Jl ’20 140w
“It is an interesting volume full of the writer’s personality written with more literary skill and taste than many such books, giving many sidelights on the musical life of the period of which it treats.” R: Aldrich
+ N Y Times 25:6 F 29 ’20 2150w
“If we were disappointed in David Bispham’s ‘A Quaker singer’s recollections,’ it was not because of lack of thoroughness, but because that delightful singer’s fund of anecdote has not been used to advantage.”
+ − N Y Times 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“A singer who can write with ease and style is rarer than that rare bird, the black swan. One artist of the kind is David Bispham.” C: H: Meltzer
+ Review 2:289 Mr 20 ’20 950w R of Rs 61:333 Mr ’20 100w
“An excellent volume of reminiscences.”
+ Spec 124:694 My 22 ’20 780w
“He has perhaps not grasped the first bitter truth to be learned by an author that of all the countless incidents which his own mind makes picturesque in retrospect only those are interesting which he can make picturesque to others. The bald stretches, however, are only occasional.”