+ Dial 69:547 N ’20 50w
“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke
+ Freeman 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w
“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called a classic.”
+ Nation 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w
“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and dignities of the short story as a kind.”
+ − Review 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3