+ − Freeman 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
+ Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w
“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w
“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”
+ Spec 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w
“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with a future before him.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w
GRAY, A. HERBERT. Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230