+ Ath p257 F 20 ’20 60w
“The primitive naturalness and high Christian idealism of the songs make them very readable.”
+ Booklist 17:63 N ’20
“English is not very well fitted to cope with it and, just as Longfellow often failed in Hiawatha, so Miss Rootham often fails to get the swing of the trochaic measure. The original is so rich in alliteration, often rhyming with vivid flashes of poetic figure, that it is impossible to reproduce its magic effect. It requires a poet to translate poetry; mere knowledge of a foreign tongue does not communicate the magic of words, and Miss Rootham’s version, while useful, will hardly satisfy the exacting lover of Serbian poetry.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p7 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The poems are vigorous and give a pleasing view of what really fine work has been done in Serbia.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 120w
“They are good poems even for us; their sheer probity is a joy. They have that rudeness touched with elegance—so different from mere rudeness—which is the spell of ancient song for modern taste.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 3:654 D 29 ’20 230w
KOUYOUMDJIAN, DIKRAN (MICHAEL ARLEN, pseud.). London venture. *$1.50 Dodd 824