“This author has had access to abundant material, and writing with a full appreciation of the limitations of Wilde’s genius he has produced what may be called the most intimate biography that has yet appeared.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Sherard’s tones are not quite clear; his moral philosophy is not quite robust and direct enough for the terrible problem of human responsibility and error with which he has to deal.”
+ – – Nation. 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1000w.
“Little excuse for its existence. As for Mr. Sherard he certainly possesses qualities we like to see in a biographer. He can draw distinctions and take note of both sides of his subject. He writes fluently and well. But he has chosen a hopeless, pitiful subject.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 545. S. 8, ’06. 820w.
Sherard, Robert Harborough. Twenty years in Paris; being some recollections of a literary life; 2nd ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
Interesting are the different ranges at which Mr. Sherard, an Englishman in Paris, views a group of men prominent in French affairs. Motives of friendship, of admiration for statemanship and for literary genius operate in his reminiscences. Zola, Renan, Daudet, de Lesseps, Guy de Maupassant, Madame Adam, Victor Hugo, and Jules Verne are among the notables who figure in Mr. Sherard’s recollections.
“The volume is full of good anecdotes which strike us as new.”