+ Booklist 16:271 My ’20
“Helen Mackay has successfully performed the seemingly impossible in ‘Chill hours.’ To be able to write with the pathos and restraint used in these sketches is to possess the technique of the skilled artist, and the vision given to a chosen few.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 500w + Dial 69:321 S ’20 50w
“Miss Mackay is a poet first of all, and poetical values are contained in all her bits of prose.”
+ N Y Times 25:25 Je 27 ’20 230w Review 2:605 Je 5 ’20 130w
“The author carries the art of selection to a fine point, and there is never a word too much in her terrible little sketches.”
+ − Spec 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 150w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p22 Ja 8 ’20 80w
MACKAY, WILLIAM MACKINTOSH.[[2]] Disease and remedy of sin. *$2.50 Doran 234
20–10742
“The author is pastor of Sherbrooke church, Glasgow. He has been trained in medicine and theology. He approaches the subject from the standpoint of a pastor, whose work has brought him into closest touch with men. He holds that religion is of the very substance of life. He examines the matter of spiritual health with the thoroughness of the physician to the body. He describes his book as ‘an essay in the psychology of sin and salvation from a medicinal standpoint.’”—Bib World