[*] “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w. |
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w. |
More, Paul Elmer. [Shelburne essays.] 3 ser. ea. [**]$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature, and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence, Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
| + | Acad. 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.) | |
| Critic. 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.) |
[*] “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’ reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third series.) |
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”