“We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost faultless little piece of irony.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w. |
“The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This, however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of Altruria.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w. |
“Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w. |
“Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w. |
“Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.
| + + | No. Am. 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w. |