“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”
+ Booklist 17:156 Ja ’21
“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly readable.”
+ − Nation 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w
“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of a master of satire.” A. W. Welch
+ N Y Call p10 N 21 ’20 380w
“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of characterization are admirable.”
+ − N Y Times p7 S 19 ’20 1400w
“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man who is not answerable to reviewers.”
+ Review 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w