+ N Y Evening Post p8 N 27 ’20 720w
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical faculty.”
+ − N Y Times p4 O 24 ’20 1150w
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
+ No Am 212:856 D ’20 1700w
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
+ Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 O 29 ’20 500w
COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR. Proportional form. il *$3 Putnam 740