“Marie Corelli is so far below Andreyev that it may excite derision to compare them, and yet in one of her bombastic novels, ‘The sorrows of Satan,’ she actually succeeded in making a more probable Satan than this one of the great Russian’s. This book is too savage either for satire or burlesque—and too inconsistent. Besides, even a good fairy tale should be plausible. Nevertheless, as a story the book is interesting.”
− + N Y Times p6 O 10 ’20 2050w
ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH. When the king loses his head, and other stories. (Russian authors’ lib.) $2 International bk.
“The half-dozen ‘other stories’ intimated in the title of this volume are ‘Judas Iscariot,’ ‘Lazarus,’ ‘Life of Father Vassily,’ ‘Ben-Tobith,’ ‘The Marseillaise’ and ‘Dies irae.’ The last two are poems in prose. The title-story is a high-strung imaginative picture of the French revolution; ‘Judas Iscariot’ might be interpreted as an attempt to corporealize an arch-fiend compelled to bring about the final tragedy of Jesus’ life in order that prophecy might be fulfilled.”—Boston Transcript
“It is to be hoped that out of Russia’s chaos, when once more life becomes normal, there will be an end to such masterpieces of outrageous dissection. They may represent an epoch, but they are unwholesome and smack of the deadly amanita. Mr Wolfe’s translation has some good passages, but there are many infelicities.”
− + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 24 ’20 370w
“This art has passion and humanity and a strange fervor. But to many its glow will seem the glow of phosphorescence and decay.”
− + Nation 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 400w Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 10 ’20 600w
ANNESLEY, CHARLES, pseud. (CHARLES TITTMANN and ANNA TITTMANN). Standard operaglass. *$3 Brentano’s 782