The Scotsman.—The title poem is a grim and powerful ballad.... The book will be read with interest and admiration by all who value the classic traditions of English poetry.
The Yorkshire Post.—... He has the right to a place among those who are creating the distinctive poetry of our time. In the two pieces, the splendid "Ode on the Passing of Autumn," and "The Gods that Pass and Die Not," Mr. Mackereth attains a height where splendid promise enlarges into great performance.
The Bookman.—... It proves him to be the possessor of a quick eye for beauty, of imagination and sensitiveness. It repeatedly echoes great work, yet still remains undeniably his own.
The Nation.—What he has to say is vigorous and virile. He is not for dealing in the vagueness of dissatisfaction, but endeavours to make his writing an affirmation of joy.
The Glasgow Herald.—To pass to his poems is to pass into mountain air where sane thought dwells.... His heart is in poetry, and his own pleasure in it merely as a word movement is manifest in every line of such poems as "Mad Moll" and "Pan Alive."
The New York Times.—A virile and hopeful singer ... resonant as a trumpet-call to those who build the palace of life.
The Dial (Chicago).—Clearly the work of a poet.... The volume will well reward him who ventures into its pages.
Literary Digest.—... The longer poems have a deep Atlantic roll.... In all his thought one can feel the lift of a tide.