Ath p429 Mr 26 ’20 140w Ath p574 Ap 30 ’20 1200w + Booklist 16:338 Jl ’20
“None but a captious critic could find fault with the fact that the authors’ preface occupies fully two-thirds of the book, for in that space the truth about America and its inhabitants is told as it has not been for some time.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p9 Mr 10 ’20 480w + Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 60w Dial 68:666 My ’20 80w + R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 10w Springf’d Republican p6 Je 17 ’20 260w
“The stringing together of widely held fallacies does not constitute an ‘American credo’ any more than a collection of ‘want’ ads makes a job. It does not describe, explain or interpret anything. The authors themselves do not know American character, even in its major aspects, but only its ludicrous or despicable blemishes.”
− Survey 44:385 Je 12 ’20 140w
“On the whole we do not gather from this repertory of popular fallacies any very definite picture of American mentality. But one can get from the latter half, at any rate, which does great credit to the authors’ ingenuity, a good deal of entertainment.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p190 Mr 18 ’20 280w
NATHAN, ROBERT. Peter Kindred. *$2 (2c) Duffield
20–1889