=Current Literature.= 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w.
“The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and thoroughly readable.”
“The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”
=Bates, Arlo.= Talks on teaching literature **$1.30. Houghton.
“Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature, the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship, literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
“It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a book upon the subject with which it deals.”
“The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”
“The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness. But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.
“The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.