Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w. |
“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w. |
“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w. |
“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w. | |
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w. |
“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w. |