“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w. |
“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd thing is that we have not been bored.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w. |
“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his talk about them.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w. |
“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence. These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but in matter.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w. |
“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor, fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + − | No. Am. 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w. |