+ Springf’d Republican p8 F 26 ’20 240w
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.[[2]] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895
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“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan, clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call
“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of philosophy.” L. B.
− Freeman 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w
“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich proverb-literature which exists in English.”
+ Nation 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w
“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement Wood