Ath p258 F 20 ’20 80w
“An extraordinary and tragic book.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:345 My ’20 250w
“On the whole, ‘The clanking of chains,’ though a very readable piece of work, does not measure up to ‘The valley of the squinting windows’; its characterization is less clear, its incident less varied, its impress less lasting.” I. G.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 F 18 ’20 950w Lit D p94 S 4 ’20 1650w
“The story is very vivid and very interesting. Irish village life is satirized with considerable skill. But one wonders what exactly Mr Macnamara intends us to infer.... Emigration seems to be his own counsel to the better spirits, as it was Dickens’s counsel in ‘David Copperfield’ to the disappointed English Chartist. But then, as now, this was a counsel of despair.” H. L. Stewart
+ − Review 2:462 My 1 ’20 1050w
“This is a strong, sombre, and disquieting book.”
+ Spec 124:247 F 21 ’20 750w