“The volume is richly illustrated in lithograph of over two hundred crosses and lychgates with many plans and details in line, making with the documentary and historical and descriptive text a fascinatingly instructive work.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 1250w + Sat R 130:96 Jl 31 ’19 820w
“Mr Vallance surveys his field both widely and closely, and we find but few occasions of criticism.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p343 Je 3 ’20 1100w
VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH. Dark mirror. il *$1.75 Doubleday
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“Priscilla Main, the heroine, is subject from childhood to strangely realistic dreams. She is a wealthy young society woman and artist; but in the dreams she assumes another personality and moves in an unfamiliar environment. In the dream existence she associates with denizens of the underworld in ‘the street of strange faces,’ and is known as ‘Red Carnahan’s girl.’ She is loved by Mario, who belongs to another world, but dwells in the lawbreakers’ region of the city, and who wants to remove her from those unwholesome surroundings. Priscilla grows to love this man of her dreams. The dreams become so vivid and distressing that the girl seeks the aid of a psychoanalyst who loves her, and who undertakes to solve the mystery of her wandering ego. The mental experimentalist gradually is able to harmonize dreams with reality and startling data from the realm of psychology are brought to light.”—Springf’d Republican
“Plausible though slightly overdrawn. The end is unexpected and also fresh.”
+ − Booklist 16:315 Je ’20 + − Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 250w