+ – Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w. + Lit. D. 32: 48. Ja. 13, ’06. 1780w.
“This collection of Ibsen’s letters is offered to us as a substitute for an autobiography which he once intended to write, but has not written; and the substitution is not entirely satisfactory. The autobiography would have been a piece of literature; the letters are nothing of the kind.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 430. D. 8, ’05. 1530w. + + Nation. 80: 416. My. 25, ’05. 570w.
“The translation is very smooth and readable, but un-Ibsenish, as is particularly noticeable in the first half of the work. While the proofreading is on the whole satisfactory, certain mistakes should not have occurred in a book of this kind.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 243. Mr. 22, ’06. 2710w.
“The letters are carefully edited, and the introduction is full of meat.” James Huneker.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1700w.
“It is difficult to overstate the interest of this collection of Ibsen’s letters. They cover a great variety of subjects, and thus give us a sort of index to Ibsen’s inner life.”
+ + + Outlook. 82: 321. F. 10, ’06. 1910w. + R. of Rs. 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“When the topics are fairly attractive, the correspondence is not dull, although the writer had no great individuality of epistolary style, and his thoughts, as Polonius would have said, are ‘not expressed in fancy.’”