+ – Cath. World. 84: 270. N. ’06. 360w.
“It is first and foremost an engaging book. The author has what is called ‘a way with him’ ... his humour is fresh ... then, too, though the style is firm and good, it is all so easy, so limpid, so light.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 259. Jl. 20, ’06. 790w.
“Two historic scenes are depicted with great power, the marriage of Mary and Philip at Winchester, and the burnings of Ridley and Latimer at Oxford.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Benton, Joel. Persons and places. $1. Broadway pub.
“Mr. Joel Benton came into casual contact with many people we want to know about—Emerson, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Horace Greeley, Barnum and Bryant—and he chats about them in a pleasant way, tho without contributing anything very novel or important to our knowledge of these men.”—Ind.
“Writing largely of things a part of which he was and nearly all of which he saw, Mr. Benton can by no means be accused of producing merely the echo of an echo.”
+ Dial. 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 300w. + Ind. 59: 1113. N. 9, ’05. 90w.