“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best yet written.”
| + | Acad. 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these epithets in no common degree.”
| + | Spec. 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w. |
Irwin, Wallace Admah. Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–41958.
“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of recent news interest.”—Outlook.
“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of ‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”