+ Lit. D. 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
+ + Living Age. 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
+ – Nation. 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is often inaccurate.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w. + R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer book about America has never been written.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions, we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness, nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his picture as a whole is false.”