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Meditations in Motley.
By WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE.
I have met with no volume of essays from America since Miss Agnes
Repplier’s so good as his “Meditations in Motley.”--Richard Le
Gallienne, in the London “Realm.”
Mr. Harte is a litterateur of the light and humorous sort, with a
keen eye for observation, and an extremely facile pen. His style is
quaint and interesting. He has original ideas and always an original
way of putting things. The writer if not quite a genius, is very
closely related to one. There is a sly and quiet humor everywhere
present. We hope that the author will soon sharpen his quill for more
work of the same kind.--New York “Herald.”
“Meditations in Motley” reveals a new American essayist, honest
and whimsical, with a good deal of decorative plain speaking.--I.
Zangwill, in “The Pall Mall Magazine” for April, 1895.
The reader gets out of this book a good deal of the satisfaction
which he finds in the essay-writing of the good old days of the
English essayists. He will be reminded in many ways of that
happy time, for he will gain the sense of leisure, independence
of democratic opinion, a willingness to be odd if one’s oddity
is attractive, a touch of the whimsical, and a good deal of
straight-forward and earnest thinking. One is often reminded in
reading these pages of Hazlitt. Mr. Harte understands the art of
essay-writing.--“The Outlook,” New York.
“Meditations in Motley,” which has stirred up thinking people
wherever it has entered their circles, is one of the lately built
pieces of literary masonry that is strong enough to last.--“The
Examiner,” San Francisco, Cal.
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