“The characters are essentially unlovely though undeniably strong. Despite all this, it is a story of rare power—sober, to be sure, but never morbid—and one that emphasizes the author’s advanced position in the ranks of contemporary novelists.”
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“There is something wanting to make the æsthetic pleasure of reading this book as intense as it should be, which argues something wanting in the performance. It is not that one misses the mystery and excitement of ‘The dark forest,’ and ‘The secret city,’ but there is the unavoidable feeling that, after the keenest appreciation of so much artistic skill, it should be possible to put the book down with the exhilaration of having read a masterpiece; and it is not possible.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p633 S 30 ’20 900w
WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH. Medieval medicine. *$2.75 Macmillan 610.9
“This book, by an American medical authority, belongs to the series of Medical history manuals, edited by Dr John D. Comrie. It embraces the history of about 1,000 years, during which the achievements in medicine and surgery were quite as remarkable as the achievements of the middle ages in other spheres.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Ath p463 Ap 2 ’20 110w
“The volume is fully within the comprehension of any educated reader, and is as entertaining as a novel.”
+ Cath World 112:112 O ’20 570w