VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST. Port Allington stories, and others. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–21335
A volume of short stories by an English author who was killed in the war, issued now as he had prepared them for publication, with a preface by his wife. Some of them had appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Contents: “This is Tommy”; The greatness of Mr Watherstone; The outrage at Port Allington; The offense of Stephen Danesford; Soaring spirits; The bad Samaritan; The sunk elephant; The adventure of the Persian prince; The smoke on the stairs; On the raft; Madame Bluebird; The missing princess; A night’s adventure; The maze.
“Deftness of phrasing, and a sense of character and of the social ironies mark a volume of tales whose sarcasm is never bitter and whose laughter is always good-natured.”
+ N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 310w
“Nowhere except in Mrs Wharton’s matchless ‘Xingu,’ and possibly in Mr Benson’s current ‘Queen Lucia,’ have the humors of feminine club-made culture been more amusingly displayed.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:253 S 22 ’20 300w
VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST. War poems, and other verses. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–20444