| + + — | Nation. 80: 399. My. 18, ‘05. 2210w. |
“A delightful little book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1780w. |
“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful, sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic gifts and of the value of his work.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 220w. |
“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his mysticism.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 597. My. 6, ‘05. 1050w. |
Gosse, Edmund William. French profiles. [*]$1.60. Dodd.
Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”
“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be bored.” Richard Garnett.