+ Booklist 16:353 Jl ’20 + Cleveland p108 D ’20 30w
“It is meant for little folks like Bobby, but the book has a charm for grown-up readers, too.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 29 ’20 140w
LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL. Golden whales of California; and other rhymes in the American language. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
20–2832
In addition to the title piece this volume contains poems on Bryan, John L. Sullivan and Roosevelt; also The Daniel jazz, Rameses II, Kalamazoo, My fathers came from Kentucky, The empire of China is crumbling down, and others.
Booklist 16:234 Ap ’20
“Mr Lindsay’s verse makes a blatantly self-conscious attempt to be primitive. His is a mannered striving to be ‘natural’—and the studio savagery of his method would doubtless alarm a genuinely primitive people, as it entertains a jaded coterie of the over-refined.” R. M. Weaver
− + Bookm 51:453 Je ’20 650w