+ − Freeman 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w + Nation 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
+ New Repub 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w
KAY, BARBARA. Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
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Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”
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“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne