“There is nothing musty about these essays. They are characterized by good sense, clear discrimination, and sane judgment, but they were written with scholarly ease, and they are invested with the atmosphere of well-bred leisure.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
“The interesting and attractive personality of the author stands out from the discussions, which are clothed in the best of modern essay style.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“The chief fault one finds in these agreeable papers is here and there a touch of sentimentalism.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 260w. Spec. 96: 741. My. 12, ’06. 1360w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Peace and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.
Critic. 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Benson does not seek verbal felicities, and he has few lines that stand out from the rest, but all his writing is at a high level of thought and style. Sincerity and simplicity are too rare endowments at any time for us to pass them by lightly.”
+ + Spec. 95: 192. Ag. 5, ’06. 130w.