| + | Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w. |
“This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when depicting a cad.”
| + − | Sat. R. 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w. |
* Rannie, David Watson. Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
“Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises; Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers, Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.
“Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very atmosphere in which these men moved.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w. |
“This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |