− Sat R 130:418 N 20 ’20 880w
“In spite of the errors in taste, and of certain occasional breaks in a style quite admirable when its purpose is considered, the book justifies those who have declared it to be ‘a true piece of literature’ with all that such words import.”
+ − Spec 125:598 N 6 ’20 3000w
“This autobiography is a revealing as well as an amazing book. The toes on which it treads are all English. Americans may not approve entirely of its material and its bumptious method, but they still find in it much significance and a great deal of entertainment.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a D 5 ’20 1350w
“Mrs Asquith has moved through great scenes; but the motion is a flitting, rather than an act of spiritual observation, and therefore when she sits down to recall her impression, it is apt to lack both sharpness and refinement.”
− Springf’d Republican p8 D 18 ’20 650w (Reprinted from London Nation)
“She is not well equipped for the panoramic display of the outer world, and the remarkable fulness of her opportunity in that direction is largely wasted. Mrs Asquith is no story-teller, it is not her line; she lacks the seeing eye and the vivifying phrase. And yet she elects to write a book that is all storytelling, all an attempt to reproduce the brilliant phantasmagoria in which she has lived.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p716 N 4 ’20 2200w
ASTON, SIR GEORGE GREY. Memories of a marine, an amphibiography. il *$5 Dutton