  MR. RICHARD LeGALLIENNE: "I can think of no truer praise of Mr. Kenneth Grahame's 'Golden Age' than that it is worthy of being called 'A Child's Garden—of Prose.'" MR. ISRAEL ZANGWILL: "No more enjoyable interpretation of the child's mind has been accorded us since Stevenson's 'Child's Garden of Verses.'" MR. SWINBURNE: "The art of writing adequately and acceptably about children is among the rarest and most precious of arts.... 'The Golden Age' is one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise.... The fit reader—and the 'fit' readers should be far from 'few'—finds himself a child again while reading it. Immortality should be the reward.... Praise would be as superfluous as analysis would be impertinent." THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW: "In this province, the reconstruction of child life, Kenneth Grahame is masterly. In fact we know of no one his equal." The International |
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