+ Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21 Boston Transcript p4 O 9 ’20 280w
“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made after a model.”
− + Nation 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w
“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor
+ − N Y Evening Post p9 N 13 ’20 850w
“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”
+ Outlook 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w
“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well selected.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w Wis Lib Bul 16:194 N ’20 190w
HIBBEN, PAXTON. Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c) Century 949.5