“‘Pirates of the spring’ is less a story than a study of character development during the troubled and turbulent years of adolescence, a study handled delicately and sympathetically; with much subtlety and many deft touches of humor. It is of course admirably written.”
+ N Y Times 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 400w Review 2:310 Mr 27 ’20 500w + Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“One thinks of this book with Richard Pryce’s ‘Christopher,’ Hugh Walpole’s ‘Jeremy’ and E. F. Benson’s ‘David Blaize.’ But discriminating taste will accord a higher degree of artistry to Mr Reid’s work than to the efforts of these able delineators of adolescent boyhood. The mentality and philosophy of boyhood are an open book to Mr Reid.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 600w
“The boys are boys, and not merely the mouthpieces of ideas.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p173 Mr 11 ’20 220w
REIK, HENRY OTTRIDGE.[[2]] Tour of America’s national parks. il *$4 Dutton 711
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“Colonel Reik’s book brings out the distinctive features of the greatest of these western parks. He shows that no two of them are alike, that each is worth seeing on its own account. While he has not attempted to write a guide book in the ordinary sense of the term, his chapters contain much of the kind of information that is sought in guide books and that will be found indispensable to anyone attempting a tour of the parks for the first time.”—R of Rs