+ + – Outlook. 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 180w. R. of Rs. 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Brown, William Haig. Carthusian memories and other verses of leisure. *$1.60. Longmans.
“A little volume of occasional and other verses by the late head master of Charterhouse, collected by his daughter. These verses represent some of the thoughtful hours of ease crowning days of toil, and reflect a gentle, kindly man whether in serious or more humorous moods.... These pages contain no mere jingling rhymes, although they show the light touch of an accomplished versifier, the work being invariably easy and natural. Dr. Haig Brown is equally at home in English or Latin, French or Greek or German.... The many specimens of prologues for Old Carthusian theatricals show a pen as facile as that of Dryden, and the four-foot rhyming Latin lines, might have come from a skilful mediaeval monk.”—Ath.
“There is in all these sets of verses ... a warmth of heart and an affection ... for the school over which he reigned for thirty-four years together with a quiet sense of fun.”
+ Acad. 68: 646. Je. 17, ’05. 460w. + Ath. 1905, 1: 749. Je. 17. 260w.
“A congeries of scholarly good things.”
+ Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 120w.
“The general reader will find the book not without a peculiar charm, which it derives less, perhaps, from its graceful art than from its attractive humanity.”
+ Spec. 96: 498. O. 7, ’05. 600w.