“It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this country has yet produced.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w. |
“Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama. This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward Fuller.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w. |
“He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we have said enough.”
| + | Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w. |
“To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and failed.” Frank Moore Colby.
| + + | Forum. 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w. |
“For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a display of genius.”
| + + − | Ind. 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w. |