+ − Freeman 1:454 Jl 21 ’20 370w
“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’ there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself. There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails, contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”
+ − Nation 110:804 Je 12 ’20 1150w
“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field
+ N Y Times 25:263 My 23 ’20 1450w
“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”
+ Outlook 125:280 Je 9 ’20 560w Review 2:604 Je 5 ’20 240w
“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich and strange and new.”