“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
+ Ath p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R. E. B.
+ − Boston Transcript p2 N 27 ’20 300w
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even the alphabet.”
− Nation 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book, much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p143 F 26 ’20 510w
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