He was one of the founders of the Positivist school, '70, and of Newton Hall in '81. A fine stylist, his addresses and magazine articles bear the stamp of a cultured man of letters.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Hardly any concert programme is considered complete without one or more numbers selected from his works; and though there are but few pianists, even in a day when Chopin as a stylist has been a study, who can do his subtile and wonderful fancies justice, there is no composer for the piano-forte who so fascinates the musical mind.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris
It gave him perhaps the shock of his literary life, when, after a discussion, Mrs. Colville said to him:- "You are a brilliant man,-an artist and a stylist.
"Edgar Saltus: The Man"
Marie Saltus