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“Rambling descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry and philosophy, and an occasional backward glance at the ‘old-fashioned times,’ serve to string some forty-eight colored pictures together.” (Dial.)
“The fault of the book is that it is written in a style that is much too affected.”
| − + | Acad. 71: 417. O. 27, ’06. 540w. |
“Mr. Thomas suffers from an over-excitation of the colour-sense, and he indulges in a great deal of fine writing. The process of reproduction is not kind to Mr. H. L. Richardson’s illustrations, some of which are pretty; but they bear singularly little relation to the text.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 735. D. 8. 510w. | |
| Dial. 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 80w. |
“Imperceptibly the reader is impressed by the writer who carries him here and there in and about England and shows him new and old things with equal charm.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1396. D. 13, ’06. 110w. |
“Such a book as Mr. Thomas’s makes one take root in England.”