“Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker, and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w. |
“Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w. |
“Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w. |
“Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w. |
“The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is a professor.”
| + | Spec. 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w. |