Eighteen essays whose subjects “are exceedingly diverse and unless they can all be brought under the heading, ‘criticism of life,’ there is no real bond of connexion amongst them.” (Ath.) The author writes upon religion, education, and literary subjects.
“He is always suggestive, and writes in a style that must commend itself to every lover of letters.”
+ + Acad. 70: 445. My. 12, ’06. 1550w.
“We find an ease and withal a grace, in these essays that charm out of the reader his sense of the pettiness of their reflections.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 420w. + + Critic. 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by C. H. A. Wager.
+ Dial. 41: 33. Jl. 16, ’06. 770w. + + Ind. 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 320w. Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“After reading ‘From a college window,’ it is still possible to hold that ‘T. B.’ is a more engaging and even a more ‘convincing’ person than Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 1570w.