“Well charged with readable gossip.”
+ Ath p962 S 26 ’19 50w
“The ordinary reader will wish that his own interest had been a little more consulted by omitting many of these equine records. He will wish, too, that Mr Allison had not been so generous in quoting from his voluminous correspondence. Barring this overplus, we think the author too modest in describing his memoirs as a ‘farrago of insignificant events.’”
+ − Review 3:655 D 29 ’20 450w
“His book shows quite exceptional familiarity with the thoroughbred, set forth in English free—though split infinitives are to be counted against him—from the distressing phraseology common to most men who write about racing.”
+ Sat R 128:365 O 18 ’19 900w
“His digressions are rather bewildering and his arguments not all strictly convincing. When Mr Allison gives himself, as he rarely does, the time to describe something with enthusiasm, William Hickey himself could do no better.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p512 S 25 ’19 1600w
ALLISON, WILLIAM. Secret of the sea. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday