More, Paul Elmer. [Shelburne essays.] 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
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ser. 4. This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains, “informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.
“Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4) |
“Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”
| + | Ind. 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.) |
“By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.) |