“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and Bohemianism.”

+Current Literature. 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.

“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end eccentric career.”

+ +Dial. 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.

“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr. Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ +No. Am. 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+Putnam’s. 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.
+Sat. R. 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.

“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations on a Rabelaisian theme.”

+Spec. 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.

* Lockwood, Laura Emma. Lexicon to the English poetical works of John Milton. *$3. Macmillan.

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