| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w. |
“This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.
| − − | Bookm. 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w. |
“If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + − | Dial. 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w. |
“It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his work.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − − | Forum. 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w. |
“This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought not to be.”
| − − | Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w. |
“Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in style.”