+ Ind 104:242 N 13 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Irita Van Doren
Nation 111:479 O 27 ’20 680w
“The combination of authenticated facts and illuminating comment makes her book fascinating.”
+ N Y Evening Post p18 N 13 ’20 150w
“The publication of ‘In Morocco,’ by Mrs Wharton, is practically simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, ‘The age of innocence.’ Both of these books add security to their author’s position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose. Never before has Mrs Wharton enjoyed so ideal an opportunity to display her gifts of colorful description as she does in this volume.” B. R. Redman
+ N Y Times p9 O 31 ’20 980w
“Nothing seen by her sensitive, unsparing eye is omitted, and her nervous style never fails to convey the effect at which she aims.”
+ Sat R 130:339 O 23 ’20 360w + Spec 125:541 O 23 ’20 200w
“The duration of her visit—one month—was fortunately too short for her to carry out her intention of writing a guide-book. One writes ‘fortunately,’ for her book would have lost in broad suggestiveness far more than it would have gained from precision in detail. With her knowledge of other countries and peoples, her sensitiveness, her gift of vivid description, and her unobtruded skill in ordered presentation, she does more than one would have thought possible to convey what was suddenly revealed to her eyes to those who will never see it with their own.”