+ Booklist 16:297 Je ’20
“It is not only valuable, but it has as the clever author doubtless intended, the delight of recalling to one’s mind, old time favorites and old familiar friends.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 18 ’20 360w Cleveland p74 Ag ’20 40w N Y Evening Post p11 My 1 ’20 600w
“Although slight and relatively unimportant, the book will doubtless reach many persons with its message of the need for segregation and institutional treatment who would not have been attracted by a work couched in the more prosaic terminology of science.” K. M. G.
+ Social Hygiene 6:594 O ’20 130w Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 2 ’20 180w
“‘The almosts’ will surely help the recognition and adequate care of the feebleminded. It should help to form public opinion.” Alexander Johnson
+ Survey 44:449 Je 26 ’20 550w
MACNAMARA, BRINSLEY. Clanking of chains. *$1.90 Brentano’s
19–17481
“The tale is called a story of Sinn Fein, yet it is not the history of that party or a novel that deals primarily with party matters: rather it is the study of an individual, whose finer instincts are never understood by his daily companions and whose efforts do not prove immediately fruitful. Michael Dempsey, the hero, we first meet taking the part of Robert Emmet in an amateur play given in the town of Ballycullen. The novel, then, is only incidentally a story of Sinn Fein, and chiefly the tale of Michael Dempsey’s two loves—Ireland and ‘Mirandolina.’ In the first case, he wooes and loses; in the second, his victory is, one is almost sure, partly defeat.”—Boston Transcript