+ + – Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 170w. + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“This is a work of vastly superior quality to the great majority of books, especially those of recent date, relating to the stage and its associations.”
+ + Nation. 83: 377. N. 1, ’06. 1010w.
“It has the easy cleverness of a clever woman’s letter, but it is perhaps a little too vivacious, too allusive, too up-to-date and too on-the-spot for a stately tome of 400 pages.” Brander Matthews.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“This book, besides being an admirable study of Garrick, is a gallery of admirably executed eighteenth-century portraits, a repertory of most delectable anecdotes that strike with perfect truth the keynote of the period, and a mine of curious and out-of-the-way information in regard to eighteenth-century theaters, the physical conditions of the stage, the tumultuous behavior of the audiences, the costumes of the actors and actresses, and no end of other matters of a kind that will be keenly relished.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 410w.
“She has humor, has this admirer of the great English actor, and a clever way of expressing it; she also has the knack of recreating the whole from a fragment. And, at the same time, she is a capable serious historian of stage and drama.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 180w. + Sat. R. 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He has found here an admirable chronicler.”