MALDCLEWITH, RONSBY, pseud. Professor’s love-life. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–19246
“The book comprises a series of genuine letters, written by a man who here appears under the name of Ronsby Maldclewith to his fiancée, Katherine, a woman of the old South now some years dead. They are published in accordance with a wish expressed by her. The young professor, devotee of literature and art, within a few months of the discovery of their mutual love, becomes the victim of incipient lung trouble. The letters to Katherine—from Denver during an apparently beneficial sojourn; from New York city, where he settles in order to be able to consult often with great specialists; from his home, to which he returns full of courage and hope of ultimate recovery, and lastly from Denver, where he loses the great fight—are intensely pathetic and from beginning to end tell a story of measureless devotion.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Ath p463 Ap 2 ’20 80w Boston Transcript p6 Ja 7 ’20 120w + Dial 68:399 Mr ’20 60w
“Were it not for beauty of language, pathos, lofty sentiment and apt quotations, there is no denying that reading the book would at times be depressing.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 9 ’20 360w
“It would be hard to trace the impalpable quality which stamps these letters with the seal of truth: but it is there to illustrate the law that style is the touchstone of all fine and sincere literature.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p38 Ja 15 ’20 600w
MALINS, GEOFFREY H. How I filmed the war; ed. by Low Warren. il *$4 Stokes 940.48