| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w. |
“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of ‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w. |
“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w. |
[*] “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w. |
“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of Montaigne will prize.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w. |
“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on English literature.”