+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 1200W + Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 120w
“It is a welcome relief to find, among the flood of books that exploit the present interest in psychic phenomena, one that is both an artistic piece of work, and a sincere attempt to penetrate beneath the usual morbid sentimentalism of the theme to the vital problems involved in a belief in survival.” H. W. M.
+ Grinnell R 15:260 O ’20 260w
“It has much of the delicate precision of line and enhanced effect of perspective which the frame of a fine window can give to the view which it reveals. But the perfection in arrangement is not complete, and the flaws which appear come close to calling in question the validity of Miss Sedgwick’s studied placement of events and deliberate simplification. Yet even with these lapses, ‘The third window’ keeps a singular and exquisite beauty.” C. M. R.
+ − New Repub 24:101 S 22 ’20 680w
“Her characters are drawn with deftness, delicacy and skill, the book is beautifully written in a style at once clear and subtle, and all the values of the picture are finely maintained. Yet for all its excellences it has one great flaw, a defect at the very root of the argument. The reader cannot but believe that Antonia’s fondness for Malcolm was a very superficial thing, since she was not only willing but even anxious so quickly to put another man in his place.”
+ − N Y Times 25:292 Je 6 ’20 800w
“Somber in theme, the story is written with exquisite delicacy and grasping strength.”
+ Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton