7–25143.

“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.”