+ – Nation. 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 680w.
“Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 1970w.
Richards, John Morgan. With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.
The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of “John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in both countries.”
Acad. 69: 1170. N. 11, ’05. 690w.
“He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication with the more solid portions of his narrative.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 721. N. 25. 400w.
“An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book at all.”