SOURCE: "Charm with Irony," in The Saturday Review of Literature (New York), Vol. IX, No. 26, January 14, 1933, p. 376.

Canby was a professor of English at Yale University and one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature, where he served as editor in chief from 1924 to 1936. He was the author of many books, including The Short Story in English (1909), a history of that genre which was long considered the standard text for college students. In the following review, Canby favorably appraises the Further Diary of a Provincial Lady.

Readers of the first Diary of a Provincial Lady will not be disappointed in this sequel. These apparently random and artless notes upon the difficulties in being literary in Devonshire with a family on your back, and upon the trials of playing up to a literary reputation amidst the professional sophistry of London, are not so artless and so random...