| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w. | |
| Int. Studio. 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w. |
“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the heart.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w. |
“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w. |
“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when, abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells simply some little story with feeling in it.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w. |
Knowles, Robert Edward. [St. Cuthbert’s: a novel.] [†]$1.50. Revell.
“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.
[*] “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we have read for several years.”