+ – Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 260w. R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 100w. + Spec. 96: 582. Ap. 14, ’06. 1720w.
Birrell, Augustine. [In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays.] **$1.50. Scribner.
“A collection of short essays on a great variety of subjects by a writer who is, by nature and training, a spectator and commentator of the school though not of the genius of Charles Lamb.” (Outlook.) “He opens his service, so to speak, in the name of the Bodleian, and goes to tell us of book-worms—the literary bookworm, not the one with spectacles—confirmed readers, first editions, libraries, old booksellers, collecting, and some score of similar things of value to the bibliophile.” (Acad.)
“If his work is always slight, it is very nearly always agreeable.”
+ Acad. 69: 1191. N. 18, ’05. 1360w.
“Represents him favorably enough as a critic none the less stimulating because he touches his topics with a light hand.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 230w. + Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 310w.
“Is characteristically full of quaint fancies, brilliant sallies of wit and humor, keenly-calculated judgments of men and things, and an erudition that pointedly avoids beaten highways to cull its treasures from old nooks and dusty corners.”
+ + Dial. 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.