+ − Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w
“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening, but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum
+ Dial 69:300 S ’20 1400w + Ind 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w
“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race must have this book.” B: de Casseres
+ N Y Times 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w
“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”
+ Outlook 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w
“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general psychologist.” H. L. Stewart
+ Review 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w
“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”