“Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text is apparently historically correct.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w. |
Smith, Francis Asbury. [Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the defendant.] Knickerbocker press.
7–8252.
A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.
“We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w. |
“A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the conditions under which they are probably produced.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w. |