Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − Bookm 51:586 Jl ’20 200w
“This is a very commodious, even lazy, way of writing a book; and, unless the letters are uncommonly brilliant, the result is generally disappointing. In this case, however, Mr Ridsdale has turned out a worthwhile correspondence in developing an ingenious though rather slender plot. ‘The gate of fulfillment’ will be read with interest.”
+ N Y Times 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 300w Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 160w
“It is a piquant situation, and some of its possibilities are well realized. But it wants a light, tactful, restrained treatment of which the author knows nothing. The letters of every one concerned are as fulsome, as precious, and as humourless as they can possibly be; and their prolix affectations become painfully tiresome long before the end is reached.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p458 Jl 15 ’20 150w
RIHANI, AMEEN F. Descent of bolshevism. $1 (9c) Stratford co. 335
20–6355
A small book written to prove that bolshevism is of oriental origin. The author goes back to fifth century Persia and has chapters on: Mazdak and Mazdakism; The Khawarij; The Karmathians; The Assassins; The Illuminati.