“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w. |
“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”
| + + — | Dial. 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w. |
“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| + + — | Nation. 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w. | |
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w. |
“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w. |