+ + – Dial. 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Benson writes with the most scrupulous self-effacement. Throughout, he walks warily, reverently, seriously, decorously, and his admiration is so constant that in one or two passages, as in the opening pages and the last chapter of the book, he falls somewhat into the manner of the master. Pater has been given into uncommonly sympathetic hands.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + Forum. 38: 102. Jl. ’06. 1000w. + – Ind. 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 490w. Lit. D. 32: 869. Je. 9, ’06. 1220w.
“It does not perhaps dig very deeply into Pater’s curious mind, and it has certain definite limitations; but it is a living sketch, vivid, tender, engaging, taken from a particular point of view, and touched off with real grace and ease.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 190. My. 25, ’06. 1220w.
“It is quite an ideal biography.”
+ – Nation. 83: 14. Jl. 5, ’06. 1530w.
“His book is readable. He has marshaled his facts and given them to us in an interesting style.” James Huneker
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 349. Je. 2, ’06. 3420w.
“Is, so far, the best expression of the life and mission of that Oxford dilettante in Roman English art and letters that we have.”