+ Ath p431 Mr 26 ’20 60w
“For a leisurely pursuit of odds and ends of knowledge, or for the scholar, geographer, historian, or student of Arab dominion I recommend his volume. No thrills, few laughs, but the book marches on in a pleasant and profitable path of facts and comment.” F: O’Brien
+ N Y Times 25:4 Jl 18 ’20 1200w + Spec 125:311 S 4 ’20 250w The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 30w
“He has taken immense pains in the compilation of his book, he has ransacked the chronicles, consulted the retailers of legends, referred to modern authorities and drawn upon his own experiences to produce a well-constructed and agreeably written compendium of all that there is to be told of Zanzibar.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p165 Mr 11 ’20 1050w
PEARL, BERTHA. Sarah and her daughter. $2.25 (1½c) Seltzer
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The scene of the story opens on Henry street in the Ghetto and portrays the American Jew in every nuance of his racial peculiarities. The abject poverty and suffering, the breaking under suffering, the resiliency, the ethical slips in the fierce struggle for existence, the hysteria and nervous breakdowns, the seriousness and absence of a sense of humor and the fundamental goodness of heart that always has the last word to say, are all there and every type finds its place down to the tragic figure of the orthodox survivor of a dead religion. In Sarah and her daughter Minnie, the immigrant Jew and the first generation, with the resulting sad conflicts between parent and child, are represented.
“Not a pleasant story, but worth while as a sincere interpretation of a type of life which the author understands intimately.”