+ − Review 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 280w R of Rs 62:448 O ’20 60w
“It is a delight to read one of Miss LaMotte’s books, and even in this which is little more than a pamphlet, one finds the unflinching courage and the keen insight which made her ‘Peking dust’ and the stories which make up ‘Civilization’ so different from the productions of most tourists in the Far East.” E. W. Hughan
+ Socialist R 8:315 Ap ’20 400w
“No one who has in the last ten years studied the hydra-headed problems of narcotism could be anything but grateful to Ellen LaMotte for her book.... Does the American public realize to what extent opium is coming in over the Canadian boundary? It might for that reason alone pay that American public to open its eyes a little wider to the facts of British opium sold at public monthly sales in Calcutta as recorded in Ellen LaMotte’s ‘Opium monopoly.’” Jeannette Marks
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 2200w
“For two reasons the opium monopoly is worthy of our attention: first, the world interest, the salvation of the eastern peoples, the Chinese especially; second, the danger that the United States will take China’s place as the great market for these products. Either is enough to interest Survey readers in this small book, the author of which has the gift of making official reports and statistics tell an interesting and fascinating story.” J. P. Chamberlain
+ Survey 44:252 My 15 ’20 550w
LAMPREY, LOUISE. Masters of the guild. il *$2.25 (3½c) Stokes
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Like the stories in the author’s previous book “In the days of the guild” these new tales do honor to the ideals of fine craftsmanship of the middle ages. The titles are: Peirol of the pigeons; A tournament in the clouds; The puppet players; Padraig of the scriptorium; The tapestry chamber; The fairies’ well; The wolves of Ossory; The road of the wild swan; The sword of Damascus; Fool’s gold; Archiater’s daughter; Cold Harbor; The wisdom of the galleys; Solomon’s seal; Black magic in the temple; The end of a pilgrimage. Poems alternate with the stories. There are illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis, and notes on the stories come at the end.