“We must offer our congratulations to Dr. Verrall on the admirable clearness with which he states and analyzes the intricate plots.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 192. F. 17. 1640w.
“By a chance, fortunate for Euripides and his readers, we have ... a second instalment ... of Dr. Verrall’s prose studies of the poet. That amounts to saying that the brightest and most ingenious exponent of the ‘true inwardness’ of Euripides as poet and dramatist and the most poetical of living translators have simultaneously helped forward a now winning cause—the rehabilitation of Euripides.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 63. F. 23. ’06. 1650w.
“The new volume is written with the acuteness and scholarship, the excessive ingenuity, the sensational manner of the old. Dr. Verrall is a thorough scholar, and no one can read him without profit. It is his method, not his knowledge that is at fault.”
+ – Nation. 82: 302. Ap. 12, ’06. 2060w.
“One may not always agree with his conclusions, some of them are very daring, one must give them consideration for the sake of the ability, sincerity and enthusiasm which he displays in arriving at them.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: 820. D. 22, ’05. 600w.
“[Dr. Verrall] is so ingeniously intricate in his arguments, he weaves into them so many curious facts and acute observations, he so intertwines exact details with fine-spun fancies, that to put even some of his conclusions simply is no easy task, while any close criticism of his reasoning would need not an article but a volume.”
+ – Spec. 96: 586. Ap. 14. ’06. 1500w.