| + | Bookm. 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w. | |
| + | Critic. 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w. |
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing on their new stage.”
| — + | Ind. 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w. |
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been already used as magazine tales.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w. |
Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. [*]$6. Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye, the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. |