“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary. Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”
| + | Acad. 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w. |
“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary reader or student.’”
| − | Ath. 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w. |
“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy volume.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w. |
“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary, and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w. |
“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr. Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”
| + | Spec. 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w. |