+ − Bookm 52:265 N ’20 320w
“His work is invariably diverting, delicate, sparkling, adapted to the subtlest appreciations.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:347 D ’20 80w Boston Transcript p7 S 1 ’20 780w + Cath World 112:263 N ’20 350w
“The title under which Mr E. V. Lucas harnesses his latest collection of essays, ‘Adventures and enthusiasms,’ suggests an intensity which is seldom substantiated in the text. These sketches move at a jogging pace, guided by a slack rein, and rarely touched by the whip of fancy.” L. B.
+ − Freeman 2:22 S 15 ’20 520w
“He writes of all sorts of ordinary, everyday things like aunts and telephones and punctuality, with pleasant leisureliness, with whimsicality and with deep enjoyment.”
+ Ind 103:441 D 25 ’20 100w
“Both the adventures and the enthusiasms are mild. Mr Lucas’s taste is generally impeccable and sane.”
+ − Nation 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 170w
“Mr Lucas’s stories verge upon essays and his essays hover upon the edge of narrative, real or fictitious. They are not easy to classify—and that is another way of saying they make the pleasantest kind of book in the world.” E. L. Pearson