+ Spec. 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
Greenslet, Ferris. James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“It is the more surprising therefore, that a man who is steeped in Lowell should on occasion himself write so vilely.”
– + Acad. 70: 201. Mr. 3, ’06. 1100w.
“There is a manifest danger that some of the merits of substance may be hidden by the tricks of manner. The genuine merits are so many and so positive that it would be the greatest of pities for the apprehensive reader too quickly to take alarm and lose the benefits of Mr. Greenslet’s searching study of Lowell the man and the writer.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + – Atlan. 97: 111. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“A compact record of this many-sided life and a really judicial discussion of the poet’s place in literature—the first essentially critical biography of Lowell yet attempted.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + + Dial. 40: 119. F. 16, ’06. 1290w.
“The book as a whole is well done, the smaller details being handled with fondness for such details, and the critical notes touching all the sensitive points.”
+ Ind. 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 300w.