+ + – Sat. R. 101: 146. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“He says many true things, and says them well; he says some few things which do not seem to us true, but he always commends them by the manifest conviction from which they proceed.”
+ + – Spec. 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 270w.
Dawson, William James. [Quest of the simple life.] $1.50. Dutton.
In form Mr. Dawson’s book “is autobiographical, narrating the happy escape of a London clerk, after twenty years’ drudgery in the city, to the free air and manifold delights of a horticultural, piscatorial and literary life in the lake district.” (Dial.)
“It is to be hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into the hands of any London-weary clerk who shall mistake its plausible fictions for the gospel truth. A student of social problems, he has things to say about the evils of city life and the advantage of country life that are worth saying and worth reading.”
+ – Dial. 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Animated by sanity, sympathy and knowledge, linked to a felicitous and forceful style.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 973. O. ’06. 120w.