+ Bookm. 24: 161. O. ’06. 450w.
“While in general the author has hardly risen to the literary possibilities of his theme, his book is not without merit.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“The tale, though, in all its situations, wholly incredible, is told with spirit, and an occasional good bit of characterization.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
“It is a picture of depravity and simply that, clever enough in workmanship, but lacking in motive.”
– + Outlook. 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
Johnson, Samuel. [Lives of English poets]; ed. by George Birkbeck Hill, with brief memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his nephew, Harold Spencer Scott. 3 v. *$10.50. Oxford.
This three-volume edition of the “Lives of the poets” is the fulfillment of Dr. Birkbeck Hill’s promise made in the preface to this edition of Boswell’s “Life.” Mr. Harold Spencer Scott, Dr. Hill’s nephew, has prepared this edition for the press, preserving the main outlines of the work as they were left by the author. He has further contributed a memoir and bibliography of his uncle.