+ Booklist 17:105 D ’20
“If his extreme youth was a little hectic with the heady wine of passion his maturity has grown beautifully sane with the philosophic mind. He was never more youthful than now, when he has recaptured the song of the lark, regained the lightness of foot that measures the pace of any gypsy up hill and down dale, and with an eye for illusions that any lover might envy.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 6 ’20 1300w Dial 70:233 F ’21 130w
“It is a sad day for poetry when an authentic craftsman attains such facility that he writes from sheer momentum. This, we suspect, is what has happened in the case of Mr Richard Le Gallienne, whose new book, ‘The junkman’ is the mere shell of poetry—the forms without the feeling.” L. B.
− Freeman 2:165 O 27 ’20 200w + Ind 194:246 N 13 ’20 150w
“It is compact with beauty, filled with all those things that we instinctively know to be the real marks of authentic poetry. The flare, the passion, the abiding sense of things that may not readily be put into words, are all here. It is the sort of poetry that endures, that becomes memorable and takes place in the memories and hearts of its readers.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p11 O 10 ’20 1500w
“A collection of verse that equals anything this prolific author has done.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 400w
LEIGHTON, JOHN LANGDON. Simsadus: London; the American navy in Europe. il *$4 (11c) Holt 940.45