“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.