+ Ath p962 S 26 ’19 140w Ath p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w + Booklist 16:173 F ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:81 Mr ’20 750w + Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction, he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own lines.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w
“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w
“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of ‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and houses.’”
+ N Y Times 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’ appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of the season.”