Reviews: Unsigned

19. Peck, Harry Thurston. THE WHIRLPOOL. BOOKMAN (NY), VII (Mar 1898), 64-66. Novel is less pessimistic than G's earlier books; bewildering in detail. Careful attention is given to particulars of plot, character, etc. Philip, Brother C, F.S.C. "Gissing as a Prophet," SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, XIX (22 Apr 1939), 9. Merely a letter to the editor quoting THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYECROFT. Priestley, J.B. "The Secret of Dickens," SATURDAY REVIEW, CXL (26 Sept 1925), 342. An important study occasioned by THE IMMORTAL DICKENS. Priestley prefers Chesterton or Forster to G. as a critic of Dickens; he insists that Dickens did not gain popularity by his position on social matters; he also disagrees with G. by insisting that Dickens gained readers by presenting an essentially unrealistic picture of life. Dickens' popularity, says Priestley, comes from his memories of childhood. Pugh, Edwin. BOOKMAN (Lond), XLIII (Dec 1912), 173· Reviewing Swinnerton's GEORGE GISSIMG: A CRITICAL STUDY and Roberts' THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND, Pugh recalls that G. was a charming man, that he was always a conscientious artist. .......... "Gissing on Dickens," BOOKMAN (Lond), LXIX (Dec 1925), 187. Reviewing THE IMMORTAL DICKENS, Pugh claims that G. "appreciates unreservedly" the creativity of the Victorian genius, and concludes that he has "personally derived nothing but profit and pleasure from reading this tribute of a star to a sun." Qui Her-Couch, Sir Arthur. CHARLES DICKENS AND OTHER VICTORIANS. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1925. Pp. 10, 11, 98, 99. Calls for a reprint of G's CHARLES DICKENS: A CRITICAL STUDY; it appeared the following year. "Recollections of George Gissmg," GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, CCC, (Feb 1906), 11-18; rptd in LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, CCIL (28 Apr 1906), 238-242. An acquaintance of G. recalls conversations with the novelist. Reid, Forrest. "Minor Fiction in the Eighties," THE EIGHTEEN-EIGHTIES, ed. Walter de la Mare. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1930. Pp. 112-13. Reid places G. as an early experimenter in naturalism. REVIEWS: UNSIGNED BORN IN EXILE. ATHENAEUM, IC (28 May 1892), 693. This is more a plot summary than a criticism; praises G's representation of Godwin Peak's courtship. ...... SPECTATOR, LXVIII (25 June 1892), 883. Commends G's increased intellectual interest; disagrees with his constant pessimism; book is too depressing. .......... WESTMINSTERREVIEW, CXXXVIII (Nov I892), 571-72. Hero is too unsympathetic to appeal to reading public. BY THE IONIAN SEA. "Fiction in the Light of Travel," ACADEMY, LX (22 June 1901), 535-36. A long article praising G's account of travel in southern Italy. G. loves Italy, but he never idea!izes; his sensibility is mature; he instinctively selects the telling detail. 20. ...... ATHENAEUM, 27 July 1901, p. 121. G. delights in an area that guide books find desolate. ...... "The Book Buyer's Guide." CRITIC (NY), XLVII (Aug 1905), 190. Announces American edition; finds book highly cultivated but not enchanting. .......... DIAL, XXXVIII (1 June 1905), 385. It is a fine idea for novelists to write travel essays. CHARLES DICKENS: A CRITICAL STUDY. "Mr. Gissing on Dickens," ACADEMY, LIII (12 Mar I898), 28O-8I. Gissing and Dickens have much in common, especially in subject matter; this is good criticism, despite the fact that G's style is rough. ..... ATHENAEUM, 9 Apr I898, p. 467. Lucidly written, study abounds in insights; there is no better work on Dickens. ...... CRITIC, (NY), XXXII (7 May 1898), 313. Observations on similarity of subject in Dickens and G; but G. never shares Dickens' optimism and humor. ...... LITERARY NEWS, XlX (May I898), 148. Quotes the NEW YORK SUN. Here is a brilliant, interesting, extremely sensitive monograph. Contains several quotes from G's study. ...... OUTLOOK (NY), LVIII (9 Apr 1898), 929. Brief notice; study is "eminently discriminating." Records American edition. ...... SPECTATOR SUPPLEMENT, LXXX (30 Apr I898), 6O3. Short comment on G's study coming at a time when Dickens' writings are in decline. .......... WESTMINSTER REVIEW, CIL (May 1898), 591. G. over-rates Dickens; Victorian novelist was merely a caricaturist, and G. ought to have said so. Brief. CROWN OF LIFE. ATHENAEUM, 18 Nov 1899, p. 683. G. shows how men act without showing why they act as they do; reader lacks sympathy for his characters because...