Booklist 17:31 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ’20 380w + Lit D p92 N 20 ’20 1450w
“All these stories are pervaded with a fatalism, a sombreness, a prepossession unredeemed by that super-sight that we associate with the Greeks of old. If they are exact transcriptions of the instincts and beliefs of the Greek people of today they have far to go before the heights are reached.” B. D.
− N Y Times p9 Ag 22 ’20 950w + Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
“Without awakening at any point intense curiosity or poignant interest they hold the attention by their sincerity, truth, simplicity, and an indefinable democratic and human tone. They are admirably translated in pure idiomatic English.”
+ Review 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Charming tales. The stories are fascinating in their strange beauty.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 270w
“These stories are beautiful as literature; they are fascinating as documents of a people’s inner life.” B. L.
+ Survey 45:334 N 27 ’20 150w
BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE. That affair at St Peter’s. il *$1.75 (4c) Lothrop