“Mr. Frewen Lord is a clever talker, whose ambition exceeds his industry. As a revelation of temperament the volume is not striking. Is at his best when he has found a quotation upon which to exercise his humor.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 720w. + Dial. 41: 91. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“The charm of Mr. Lloyd’s book lies in this very novelty of many of its ideas, its piquancy of expression, and its revelation of his own alert and unconventional mind. It is a suggestive and readable book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 470w. + Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 190w.
“These criticisms are smartly done, and there is plenty of suggestion in most of them. They are well up to the average papers of the sort. Of the necessity for them in book form we are not so sure.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“They are eminently readable; they are manifestly the result of very careful work; they are often marked by ingenuity and force. In his ‘Dedicatory letter’ Mr. Lord writes a little wildly.”
+ – Spec. 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 470w.
Lorenz, Daniel Edward. Mediterranean traveller. *$2.50. Revell.
“It has many illustrations, but is a heavy and cumbrous volume, decidedly inferior to Baedeker’s in compactness and arrangement.”