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“Those who enjoyed the rough but hearty lyrics in ‘Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads’ will wish to read these later collections by the same author, now working under a Harvard fellowship. The later volume has no music scores, and many of the poems can definitely be assigned to authors, among them, Charles Badger Clark, jr. and Herbert H. Knibbs.”—Booklist
Booklist 16:195 Mr ’20
“Some of these pieces are clearly as spurious as are the seventeenth century lyrics of Strephon and Colin. Others are more true to life.”
+ − Nation 110:306 Mr 6 ’20 280w
“Whatever may be the literary poverty of the verse in Mr Lomax’s book, the poems are true to type. Many of the ‘Songs of the cattle trail’ are worth little, perhaps, in themselves. Collected, they form both a picture and a plea: a picture of a vitally individual and highly-colored life that is rapidly fading into the monotone of a mechanical civilization; a plea for a deeper, finer art-interpretation of that life.” Natalie Curtis
+ Nation 111:591 N 24 ’20 2200w
“It is a pleasure to read verse that is unpretentiously natural, in which something happens, and in which nature is allowed to seem as robust and hearty as she really is. Professor Lomax has done well by his country in presenting these rough songs of adventure in the West.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ N Y Times 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 550w