“This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.
+ Bookm. 24: 367. D. ’06. 1120w. Current Literature. 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.
“His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + + Dial. 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.
“The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
“‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.
“It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always amiable.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.