+ + – Dial. 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.
“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”
– – Ind. 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.
“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present ‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.
“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”
+ Nation. 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.
“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his remarkable adventures.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.
“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.