Reviewed by Frances Duncan.
| Critic. 46: 280. Mr. ‘05. 1030w. |
“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the general reader could not be desired.”
| + | Ind. 58: 208. Ja. 26, ‘05. 400w. |
“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy; sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.
| + + + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 391. Ap. ‘05. 990w. |
“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment, and that his judgment is likely to be final.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 35. Ja. 12, ‘05. 2380w. |
Stephen, Leslie. [Hours in a library.] [*]$6. Putnam.
A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott, Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.