“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief characters are very real.”
+ Ind 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that ‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent craftsmanship.”
+ − N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w
“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality. Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 300w
“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy) husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so attractive a feature in some American novels.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w
KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON. Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543
The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.” (Preface to the second edition)