Mr. Norman Hapgood is the dramatic critic of the Commercial Advertiser, but he employs his pen with other work in which the versatility of his gifts is strikingly displayed. With equal grace he writes of Daniel Webster or Abraham Lincoln, tragedy queens or concert-hall singers, theatrical syndicates or platonic love. Mr Andrew Lang himself could not cover a greater range of subjects. No one who has ever seen Mr Hapgood could fail to recognize this portrait though made from a hasty sketch by Miss Pamela Colman Smith. Miss Smith cought the critic as he sat in the American Theatre watching a performance of "The Mascot". It is only fair to say that Mr. Hapgood does not always wear the bland expression given him by the artist nor has his hair usually such poetic disarrangement.

(The Critic, 1900 June. p.490)