+ Outlook. 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w. – Sat. R. 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
Rickett, Arthur. Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25. Dutton.
Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature ... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet; Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.
“Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens to deny that it is profound.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 757. Je. 23. 1180w.
“Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of ‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of fact.”
– Dial. 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.
“It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or just.”
+ Nation. 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 520w.