| Atlan. 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w. |
“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + — | Critic. 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w. |
“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held together.” W. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w. | |
| * | + — | Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences, collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas, form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America and England.”
| + | Int. Studio. 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement of contents.) |
“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w. |
“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected, specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.