“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary annals.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents). | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Part of a man’s life. [**]$2.50. Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection, that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry; Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne; History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
[*] “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w. |
[*] “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor abated.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w. |
[*] “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here spread out pretty thin.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w. |