| + − | Int. Studio. 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w. |
“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared with it for self-consciousness.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w. |
“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man associated for the first time. The result is attractive even picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be more satisfactory.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w. |
“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently successful career in over-great detail.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w. |
“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could write so well.”