+ Freeman 2:286 D 1 ’20 760w
“The stories have the radiance of perfect cleanliness, like the radiance of burnished glass. Miss Cather’s book is more than a random collection of excellent tales. It constitutes as a whole one of the truest as well as, in a sober and earnest sense, one of the most poetical interpretations of American life that we possess.”
+ Nation 111:352 S 25 ’20 500w
“Feeling she has, and romantic glamour, but at no time does she seem easily irradiant. For this reason her very effectiveness, her shrewd impersonal security in the arrangement and despatch of her story, has a formality that takes away from the flowing line of real self-expression. Better than the familiar vast ineptitude, this formality. But Miss Cather is perhaps still withholding from her fiction something that is intimate, essential and ultimate.” F. H.
+ − New Repub 25:233 Ja 19 ’21 1800w
“‘Youth and the bright Medusa’ is decidedly a literary event which no lover of the best fiction will want to miss.”
+ N Y Times p24 O 3 ’20 550w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 190w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p670 O 14 ’20 50w
“Miss Cather is one of a small group of American authors who are producing literature of a high type and adding to the literary laurels of America in Europe. She is an artist with a sure touch in moulding a plot and depicting a motive. The longer stories here—Coming, Aphrodite and The diamond mine—are consummate in both respects.”