“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy stuff passing current as historical fiction.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth century.”
| + | Spec. 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w. |
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Charles Dickens.] **$1.50. Dodd.
6–34069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive, appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always entertaining.”
| + + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
“It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct, than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.