“Mr. Parry has missed a splendid chance and has missed it so widely that he almost obscures the chance.”
– Pub. Opin. 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 520w. R. of Rs. 33: 759. Je. ’06. 120w.
Parsons, Mrs. Clement. David Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75. Putnam.
“Mrs. Parsons’s book is first of all a life of the greatest of English actors, a record of his triumphs and a study of his methods. It is also a broad picture of the social life of the day. Garrick is followed into all the circles he frequented, and we make the acquaintance of the great company of his friends and associates.”—Outlook.
“She has written a very charming and entertaining book, which clothes wide learning in graceful though transparent chiffon. The pity is that she has not always—or not often—distinguished between lightness of the right and the wrong kinds.”
+ – Acad. 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Among stage records the present volume will take an agreeable place. It is written with abundant verve, and shows a wide range of reading.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 703. D. 1. 840w.
“The chief fault in Mrs. Parsons’s book is its diffuseness. The author has done her work thoroughly, however, and carefully; such research commands respect, because of what it exacts in the gathering. Students will find her volume a mine of information, and an available reference-book, with its commendable bibliography and appropriate illustrations.”