Meditations in Motley.
Meditations in Motley.
ByWalter 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.Price in Handsome Cloth, $1.25.FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.Or sent postpaid on receipt of price bythe Publishers,The Arena Publishing Co.,Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
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.
Price in Handsome Cloth, $1.25.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.Or sent postpaid on receipt of price bythe Publishers,
The Arena Publishing Co.,Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Archaic or alternate spelling has been retained from the original.