+ Outlook. 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 200w.
“Mrs. Shaler has chosen her examples happily. The book breathes precisely that spirit of high endeavor that is most bracing, and its admonition is for the sound as well as the feeble, for if the sorely hampered can do these works, what ought not to be done by the whole?”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 317. D. ’06. 220w.
Shand, Alexander Innes. Days of the past: a medley of memories. **$3. Dutton.
“Not a mere bookman, but also a general amateur of life—a sportsman, a gastronomer, even a taker of ‘fliers,’ or, as he calls them, ‘flutters,’ on the stock exchange.” (N. Y. Times.) Mr. Shand records with a sure and steady touch the interesting phases of sixty-five years of memories. “Mr. Shand’s recollections of old Edinburg and the almost forgotten ecclesiastical Scotland in which Guthrie and Tulloch played their not unimportant parts shows him at his best. Next to these are his portraits of hosts of men of letters and journalists whom he has come across in his time, such as Blackwood, Delane, Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Lockhart, Kinglake, Hayward, and even Mr. George Meredith.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Shand’s memories, however, might with advantage have been less of a ‘medley.’ His tendency to hop from topic to topic produces a blurred impression, and he is provokingly chary of dates.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 460w.
“Written in vivacious and free-and-easy style not unmixed with slang.”
+ – Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 80w.