+ Dial 69:215 Ag ’20 120w
“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour. And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”
− + Freeman 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w
“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w
“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development, but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an anatomical study of the subject.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical interpretation.”
+ − Theatre Arts Magazine 4:257 Jl ’20 300w
CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE. Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam