+ N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 190w + Review 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 130w
“Lawton Mackall, editor of ‘Judge’ gives visible proof of his qualification to be in charge of a journal of humor by a delicious bit of barnyard satire, ‘Scrambled eggs.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 100w
MACKAY, HELEN GANSEVOORT (EDWARDS) (MRS ARCHIBALD K. MACKAY). Chill hours. *$1.50 (5½) Duffield
20–3265
Sketches of France in war-time, of the people who were left behind, at home and in the hospitals, deep, sad, intimate things that grip the reader with their poignancy of pain. The longest of these sketches, Nostalgia, is a review of all the beautiful things that were once upon a time, long ago before the war.
“The writer’s success is very definite in capturing the pensive and romantic atmosphere. The stories are written with a tender, though never sentimental or too slight touch, that gives the suggestion of music heard in the twilight from an old harpsichord, and something of the abiding fragrance.”
+ Ath p494 Ap 9 ’20 180w
“Will be liked by those who read for beauty of expression and imagination. Nostalgia is one of the most poignant and revealing sketches that has come from the war.”