+ Review 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 460w
“The book is an interesting, if somewhat morbid, study of life, as seen by a youth in the egotistic years between boyhood and manhood. The main theme is the hero himself—to the detriment of several deserving minor characters.”
+ − Sat R 128:469 N 15 ’19 450w
“But for the episode of Rosie Beaucaire and one more rather tiresome and trivial incident Mr Brett Young would have succeeded in producing a long and interesting work of fiction in which the relations of sex played no part whatever.”
+ − Spec 123:774 D 6 ’19 200w
“Perhaps the most striking thing about the book is the ease with which Mr Young blends poetry and realism—out of some such blend as this the great novels of the next few decades must be written. Probably Mr Young has not attained his finest balance yet. He seems to have the power of using the modern spirit to classical ends.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 700w
“If more novelists wrote as well as Mr Brett Young, whose style is attractively clear and simple, the world would be a happier place; but manner is not everything, and the matter of Edwin Ingleby’s life is comparatively wanting in dramatic interest. We wish the author could convey to his imagination the very obvious zest which moves his pen.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p531 O 2 ’19 550w
YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT, and YOUNG, E. BRETT. Undergrowth. *$2 Dutton