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The author has collected from various sources estimates, or characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and work.
Knollys, George. Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the poeticule of prose.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w. |
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
| + | Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w. |
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and original work.”