| + + | Ind. 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 310w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81 :278. O. 5, ‘05. 90w. |
“Mr. Paul Elmer More edits the book with judgment and restraint.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 110w. |
Byron, George Gordon. Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W. A. Lewis Bettany. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the business seriously.”
“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary ‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr. Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific analysis of correspondence.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 653. Je. 24, ‘05. 1410w. |
[*] “These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary public.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Atlan. 96: 846. D. ‘05. 560W. |
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.