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Graham Robertson Equally, Graham Robertson, a close friend of Kenneth Grahame (and a closer one of Oscar Wilde), did not think that the public would mistake its intentions; he wrote to Grahame: Don't you think Methuen himself, in his preliminary announcement of the Hook, should mention that it is not a political skit, or an allegory of the soul, or a Socialist Programme or a social satire? It would save critics a good deal of unnecessary trouble.: http://www.webdaytona.com It was reviewed, with its adult peers, in the Times Literary Supplement (22 October 1908) immediately above Virginia Woolf's anonymous review of E. M. Porster's .7 Room with a View. Arnold Bennett, review ing it in The New .Hge (24 October 1908), observed, prcscicntly: the bix>k is fairly certain to he misunderstood of the people .. .The author may call his chief characters the Rat, the Mole, the Toad,—they are human beings, and they are meant to be nothing but human beings .. . The book is an urbane exercise in irony at the expense of the English character and of mankind. It is entirely successful. . . and no more to be comprehended by youth than 'The Golden Age' was to be comprehended by youth.'http://www.solecolor.com Modern critics of children's literature agree: Barbara Wall's analysis reveals a book 'in w hich the narrator shows no consciousness at all of an implied child reader for chapters at a time'; and Humphrey Carpenter is clear that 'The Wind in the Willows has nothing to do with childhood or children, except that it can l>c enjoyed by the young'.4 http://www.easylulu.com