| + + | Acad. 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w. |
[*] “Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward Fuller.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 568. D. ‘05. 530w. |
“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a useful one.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 700w. |
“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature, the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest. Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and advantage.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 676. My. 6, ‘05. 1480w. |
[*] Gosse, Edmund William. Sir Thomas Browne. [**]75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor. But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring, experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)
[*] “Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface and may be briefly dismissed.”