| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w. |
“There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”
| + | Dial. 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w. |
“Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w. |
“It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w. |
“We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we have wasted time. Could critic say more?”