“The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs, the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that no bibliographic note has been appended.”
+ – Nation. 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 990w.
“He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is ‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”
+ – Spec. 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
Gilpin, Sidney. Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and works. $3. Macmillan.
“Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition, and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.
“Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”