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“So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for fact.”
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“It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”
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“We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy, shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”
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Hutton, Richard Holt. Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.
A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr. Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman, Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)