“If there is a defect in Mr Osborne’s book, it is that he seems less inclined to dwell on the positive qualities of Clough’s poetry than on its shortcomings. In a psychological and critical study of Clough’s life it is masterly; the analysis is searching, but there is sympathy as well as justice in the author’s intuition.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p153 Mr 4 ’20 1850w
O’SHAUGHNESSY, EDITH LOUISE (COUES) (MRS NELSON O’SHAUGHNESSY). Alsace in rust and gold. il *$2 (3½c) Harper 940.48
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The author says that from the rut and routine of war-work in Paris she was conveyed “as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust and gold and jasper hills of Alsace, where the color is laid on thick, thick,” when she accompanied the French military mission during the thirteen historic days preceding the armistice. In this well-illustrated book she describes with “no polemics and no statistics” the picturesque aspect of the country. Contents: The journey there; All Saints’ day, November, 1918; Fête des morts, November, 1918; Thann and old Thann; The Ballon d’Alsace; La popote; The houses of the chanoinesses; Luncheon at Bitschwiller—the mission in residence at St-Amarin—Saint-Odile; The “field of lies” and Laimbach; The valley of the Thur; The re-Gallicizing of Alsace; The Hartmannswillerkopf; “Les crêtes”—“Déjeuner” at Camp Wagram—the Freundstein and its phantoms; Return to Masevaux; The vigil of the armistice; Dies gloriæ.
+ Booklist 17:25 O ’20
“‘Alsace in rust and gold’ has a quality of permanence that will make it readable ten, fifteen, twenty years hence. It should occupy an honored place on the shelf, marked ‘Travel’ in every well-regulated library.”
+ Cath World 111:689 Ag ’20 260w + Nation 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w + Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“So long as she confines herself to impressions and sentiments the record flows smoothly, for Mrs O’Shaughnessy is a writer of quick perception and likely feeling. But from time to time there is a little attempt, unconscious perhaps, to parade the knowledge she has picked up in her long acquaintance with many lands and many men, and then even the most indulgent reader is roused to revolt.”