“In this detective story the murderer is really ingenious, and will not easily be discovered. Mr Rees has spent too much time at the beginning in picturing old-world details, and elsewhere by being ‘literary’ he delays the action of the story which is everything in a tale of this sort.”
+ − Sat R 130:525 D 25 ’20 130w
“Mr Rees spins us with deft entanglements another of his first-class mystery yarns.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p781 N 25 ’20 80w
REES, BYRON JOHNSON, ed. Modern American prose selections. $1 (1c) Harcourt 810.8
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A selection of some twenty examples of modern American prose. The compiler’s aim has been to bring together examples of “typical contemporary prose, in which writers who know whereof they write discuss certain present-day themes in readable fashion.” Among the selections are: Abraham Lincoln, by Theodore Roosevelt; American tradition, by Franklin K. Lane; Our future immigration policy, by Frederic C. Howe; A new relationship between capital and labor, by John D. Rockefeller, jr.; My uncle, by Alvin Johnson; When a man comes to himself, by Woodrow Wilson; The education of Henry Adams, by Carl Becker; The struggle for an education, by Booker T. Washington; Traveling afoot, by John Finley; Old boats, by Walter Prichard Eaton.
Booklist 17:147 Ja ’21
REID, FORREST. Pirates of the spring. *$1.90 (2c) Houghton