+ Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“This story is as delightful as ‘The Prestons,’ and that is saying much for it. The author has an uncanny understanding of children and the problems that they offer to conscientious parents.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 500w + Wis Lib Bul 16:239 D ’20 40w
VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).[[2]] Men and steel. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 331.89
After a graphic description of the power of iron and of how coal, iron and steel rule our civilization, of the great machines in the mills to which man is but a negligible adjunct, of the mill towns—the slummiest and the comparatively decent—all with the common motive: “Man is puny; Industry great”—the author gives the history of the great steel strike which she has personally followed up and observed in detail. The book falls into four parts: Strike background; The steel strike; Silence; The dying strike.
“Skillfully written the book is, but it proves next to nothing, for throughout the author uses the individual’s story (easy to find among several hundred thousand people) to prove broad truths.”
− + Boston Transcript p4 Ja 19 ’21 170w
“It is a beautiful and a terrible book, because like a true work of art it embodies the elemental beauty and terror of life.”
+ Nation 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 780w