− Review 3:350 O 20 ’20 250w
“As a matter of fact, his self-revelation is more interesting than are the psychical experiences that he narrates.” Lilian Whiting
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 320w
“Mr Magnussen begins his account in a vein of naive egotism, which—at any rate when in the dress of another language—sometimes approaches the comic; but as he proceeds his story assumes a literary quality by means of its directness and simplicity.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p687 O 21 ’20 100w Wis Lib Bul 16:232 D ’20 20w
MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE. Books and their writers. *$2 Dodd 824
(Eng ed 20–9510)
A series of literary essays and reviews. The author says, “All I have sought to do has been to convey some of the pleasure I have gained from desultory reading of all kinds during the last few years.” In part 1, Novelists and novels, he writes of Compton Mackenzie, Norman Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Stephen McKenna, Jane Austen, Clemence Dane, Dorothy Richardson. Part 2, Poetry and poets, is devoted to J. C. Squire, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols, Dora Sigerson, Chinese poetry. Part 3, Books in general, contains reviews of Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians,” Smith’s “Trivia,” and other recent works, also papers on Alice Meynell as critic and Lafcadio Hearn. Some of the essays are reprinted from the Fortnightly Review and To-day.
“A light and sketchy, appreciative and not over-critical, yet useful contribution to the history of current literature.”