+ − Am Hist R 26:145 O ’20 340w
“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’ published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg
+ Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:153 S ’20 550w
“An extremely readable volume.”
+ N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).[[2]] Sword of the spirit. *$2.50 Dutton
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“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other. Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature. The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times
+ Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21