“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w. |
“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger generation.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w. |
“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the patches are incongruous.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w. |
Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton). Personal and literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
7–26424.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.