“Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 410w. |
“We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of extracts from original records.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 480w. |
“The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life without too severe a mental effort.”
| + | Sat. R. 101: 497. Ap. 21, ’06. 860w. |
Hood, Thomas. [Poetical works], ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.
“‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available, searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from manuscript.”—Nation.
“We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”