+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 580w.
“What the most famous critic has to tell us is of interest in view of his position and personality, and it is charmingly told.”
+ + Bookm. 24: 361. D. ’06. 1730w.
“The vigor and the vitality which characterize his treatment of other writers are equally characteristic of this account of his own career, and in part even to the most trivial happenings a high degree of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 323. N. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“A two-fold value may be attached to this work. It is a piece of self-revelation by a master of psychological analysis, and it is a picture of events and personages prominent on the page of European history in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, seen through the prism of a very rich temperament.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 290w.
“The translation of the book is, unfortunately, not very good. Not only is Brandes’s nervous, individual style entirely lost, but the translator shows lamentable ignorance of idiomatic English.”
+ – Nation. 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 450w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“While there is little in the narrative that is of permanent value, it is an interesting exercise to assume the writer’s point of view, and look out of the windows he opens toward the world of social, artistic, and literary movement.”