| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w. |
“The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial and sympathetic message—possibly many.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w. |
“It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner, and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w. |
“He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all criticism is powerless.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w. |
Belloc, Hilaire. [Historic Thames.] *$6. Dutton.
“Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead, by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.