“There is a great deal that is interesting and valuable in Mr. Ellis’s book: but it is not well composed, the writing is slovenly, and it has other serious faults which will assuredly prevent it from superseding Gilchrist, in spite of a much completer understanding of Blake’s mind and ideas.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1360w. |
“It is written to do honour to Blake and to explain him, but it requires both correction and explanation before it can do either.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 598. My. 18. 2130w. |
“If Mr. Symons writes from the point of view of ultra-romanticism, Mr. Ellis speaks from the region of spirit-rapping and table-turning. He has produced a book that is almost a model of what a biography ought not to be.”
| − − | Nation. 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 750w. |
“Mr. Ellis worships Blake, and he seems to have attracted to himself several of his idol’s less amiable qualities, his arrogance, his carelessness in writing and his intolerance; these characteristics are obvious, not only in the preface, but more or less throughout the book.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 8. F. 23, ’07. 320w. |
Ellis, George. Modern practical carpentry for the use of workmen, builders, architects, and engineers. *$5. Industrial.
“A practical discussion of the methods and practices connected with the heavier kinds of carpentry work. It treats of the subject as seen in England, where wood work is used to a much greater extent than in this country. However, the discussions on shoring, scaffolding, tunnel and bridge centering and coffer dams are of universal interest.”—Engin. N.