| − | Lond. Times. 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w. |
“It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a Johnson.”
| − | Nation. 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w. |
“Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers, a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little, and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w. |
“The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.
| − | No. Am. 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w. |
“Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
| − + | Putnam’s. 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
“If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want him out of the way.”