“It is an easy enough book to read; but there is nothing much to carry away from it, except the impression of an experienced chronicler rehandling his materials in the light of an ‘idea.’”
+ − Review 2:654 Je 23 ’20 650w
“Where it might be thought to fail, is in the too subtle characterisation of Celia; older hands would have broadened their touches. It is a fine piece of work.”
+ − Sat R 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 100w
“The merit of the book lies in the skill with which the conflict between Cecilia’s better instincts and her invincible egotism is drawn. Mr Beresford is an admirably self-effacing narrator.... Allowing for the improbabilities we have noted, this is an excellent and restrained study of an ‘a-moral’ type of womanhood.”
+ − Spec 124:697 My 22 ’20 560w
“Judged as an essay in morbid psychology, ‘An imperfect mother’ is an interesting document; judged as a novel, it is a failure.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p199 Mr 25 ’20 850w
BERGER, MAURICE. Germany after the armistice. *$3.50 (5c) Putnam 914.3
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