“His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 50. F. ’07. S. | |
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w. |
“It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.
| + | Atlan. 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w. |
“Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade van Westrum.
| + − | Bookm. 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w. | ||
| Current Literature. 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w. |
“Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”
| − | Educ. R. 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w. |
“Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary art with which they are expressed.”
| + | Ind. 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w. |