| + − | Atlan. 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w. |
“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − + | Bookm. 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w. |
“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression. They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w. |
“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American scenes.’”
| − | Ind. 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w. |
“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a single book.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w. |
“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side. Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”