+ Critic. 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is an exhaustive analysis of the youth and early manhood of a personality of exceptional interest, with whose later years of achievement the reading-public is generally familiar.” Annie Russell Marble.
+ + Dial. 41: 59. Ag. 1, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
“When completed bids fair to become one of the important contributions to our biographical knowledge during recent years.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + Forum. 38: 97. Jl. ’06. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.) + Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 1.) + Lit. D. 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One can pardon somewhat his lack of literary skill, in view of his transparent honesty, and modest attitude toward his work as ‘material’ for the use of more competent workers hereafter.”
+ – Nation. 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is in his attitude towards his literary master a certain servility of indiscriminate admiration, a too thoroughgoing sympathy. The net result of which simplicity is that the eminent Russian’s worst enemy could have wished him no other biographer.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The undisguisedly autobiographic portions are exceedingly frank in places, and always intensely egotistical.”