+ + Acad. 70: 133. F. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“Dr. Hill devoted many years of research to Johnson and Johnson’s period and we know no modern talent which can be ranked with his in its wonderful grasp of contemporary sidelights on his subject.”
+ + + Ath. 1906, 1: 162. F. 10. 3020w.
“A reprint of special importance.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + Atlan. 98: 276. Ag. ’06. 970w.
“One does not have to proceed far in one’s examination either of the notes or of the list of books quoted before one perceives that in this posthumous work Dr. Hill cast his nets almost as frequently and as widely as he did in his Boswell, and caught almost as many fish, large and small, common and strange, in the shape of apposite and illuminating quotations from all manner of books and writers.” W. P. Trent.
+ + + Forum. 37: 540. Ap. ’06. 5760w.
“A more thorough and accurate piece of revision and verification than is represented by the text, notes, and index of the present edition will rarely, we imagine, be found in editorial annals.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 3000w.
“It was a happy idea of Dr. Birkbeck Hill to publish the “Lives” in what will probably be their final edition.”