“He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to him is likely to ask him to stop.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 22. Ja. 6. 2460w.
“The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + Atlan. 97: 275. F. ’06. 1420w.
“Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity, curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
– Critic. 48: 529. Je. ’06. 2090w.
“Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ + Dial. 40: 113. F. 16, ’06. 2590w. + – Edinburgh R. 203: 450. Ap. ’06. 9790w. + Ind. 60: 572. Mr. 8, ’06. 870w.
“About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an impartial historian of it.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 40w.