− + Dial 68:667 My ’20 80w
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p11 My 8 ’20 220w N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p634 N 6 ’19 60w
KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD). Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
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Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s unfaithfulness.
Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20 Bookm 52:253 N ’20 120w