BOOKS BY KENNETH GRAHAME
THE GOLDEN AGE
MR. I. ZANGWILL IN PALL MALL MAGAZINE.—'No more enjoyable interpretation of the child's mind has been accorded us since Stevenson's "Child's Garden of Verses."
MR. A. C. SWINBURNE IN THE DAILY CHRONICLE SAYS.—'The art of writing adequately and acceptively about children is among the rarest and most precious of all arts. ..." The Golden Age" is one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise.'
THE NATIONAL OBSERVER. —'If there is a man or woman living who cannot read this book with delight, to him or her we offer our pity and compassion.'
PROFESSOR J. SULLY.—'Quite lately more than one serious attempt has been made to give childhood its due in fiction. A notable instance is Mr. Kenneth Grahame's pictures from child-life.'
PAGAN PAPERS
THE ACADEMY.—'Rarely does one meet with an author whose wit is so apt, whose touches of sentiment are so genuine. His paper on tobacco is good reading, though one remembers Calverley and the Arcadian mixture; the eulogy on the loafer is second only to Mr. Stevenson's praise of "The Idler." There is too a distinct flavour of poetry in much of Mr. Grahame's works. One could have wished "White Poppies" had been written in verse, were not the prose of it so delicate and adequate."
THE DAILY CHRONICLE.—"Mr. Kenneth Grahame's accomplishment is astounding. … His style is a delight, so high is its vitality, so cool its colours, so nimble and various its rhythms. He has read and assimilated Browne Burton. He has a pretty poetic fancy and is apt at a quaint analogy. Many forms of beauty—existent and non-existent—he loves with a deep and discriminating love.'
