– Ath. 1906, 2: 10. Jl. 7. 490w.
“Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical interest.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1100w.
“The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book for those who love impeccable workmanship.”
+ Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 450w.
“The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 950w.
“To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 170w.
“In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”