+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 220w
“Despite a great deal of burning talk about love and passion, the story leaves one quite cold.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p686 O 21 ’20 120w
SAWYER, RUTH (MRS ALBERT C. DURAND). Leerie. il *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
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“Leerie” was what the patients at the “San” lovingly called their nurse Sheila O’Leary, and like Stevenson’s “Leerie,” she brought light into the lives of her charges as no other nurse could. Especially to Peter Brooks, she brought light which they both felt could never die out. Then just on the very eve of her marriage to him, she felt the call to go to France, and went. But she did not leave him behind for he too found his place over there. There, after her period of service which offered experiences both bitter and sweet, they were reunited, “glad they had both paid their utmost for the love and happiness that she knew was theirs now for all time.”
“Somewhat sentimentalized and improbable, but women and girls will like it.”
+ Booklist 17:74 N ’20
“The book contains the correct philosophy of life throughout, showing that happiness comes from making others happy, from giving freely.”