+ − Boston Transcript p7 Jl 31 ’20 310w
“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is ineffective.”
+ − Dial 69:433 O ’20 70w
“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 650w
“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”
− Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 60w
“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.
− Review 3:192 S 1 ’20 920w
CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT). Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947