“The picture is painted in drab colors, and in the narration of the slender story the author is never at pains to cater to any party’s sympathies or prejudices.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 30 ’20 180w
“The story is told in a confused way, and in several places the action hangs fire. The book also contains too much rhetoric. But the analysis both of the inhabitants of Ballycullen and of the problems which these individuals personify is acute and honest. Mr Macnamara is, for a writer on Irish topics, impartial, and he makes a great effort to consider the case from every aspect.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p200 Mr 25 ’20 540w
MACNAUGHTAN, SARAH BROOM. My war experiences in two continents; ed. by her niece, Mrs Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young). *$5 Dutton 940.48
(Eng ed 19–8145)
“The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to some extent for her earlier book, ‘A woman’s diary of the war,’ but there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the description of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her soup-kitchen at Furnes, is vivid and moving. After a year in Belgium and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Macnaughtan went to give her help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships she had to endure, she was forced home by illness in the following spring, and she died a few months later. If the chapters dealing with this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her pen.”—Spec
“Though one feels that her deliberate aim was to set down faithfully what she saw—the result is infinitely more than that. It is a revelation of her inner self which would perhaps never have been revealed in times less terrible and strange.” K. M.
+ Ath p237 Ap 25 ’19 1200w Brooklyn 12:43 N ’19 40w + Pittsburgh 24:612 D ’19 40w + Sat R 127:426 My 3 ’19 700w + Spec 122:637 My 17 ’19 200w