"It has real life and drama, not merely beautiful words, and so differs from the great mass of poetic plays."—Prof. Gilbert Murray.
David: A Play
"It is safe to say that were Mr. Rice an Englishman or a Frenchman, his reputation as his country's most distinguished poetic dramatist would have been assured by a more universal sign of recognition."—The Baltimore News.
Charles Di Tocca: A Play
"It is the most powerful, vital, and truly tragical drama written by an American for some years. There is genuine pathos, mighty yet never repellent passion, great sincerity and penetration, and great elevation and beauty of language."—The Chicago Post.
Song-Surf
"Mr. Rice's work betrays wide sympathies with nature and life, and a welcome originality of sentiment and metrical harmony."—Sydney Lee.
TRAILS SUNWARD
By CALE YOUNG RICE
"Cale Young Rice has written some of the finest poetry of the last decade, and is the author of the very best poetic dramas ever written by an American.... He is one of the few supreme lyrists ... and one of the few remaining lovers of beauty ... who write it. One of the very few writers of vers libre who know just what they are doing."—The Los Angles Times.