| + | Dial. 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom or intelligence.”
| + + | Ind. 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w. |
Knight, William A. Retrospects. Vol. I. [*]$2.25. Scribner.
“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading.... After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided, fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D. Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.
“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents). |
“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents). |
[*] Knipe, Emilie Benson, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. [†]$1.50. Stokes.