“Her book reads a little as if Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen and the others were files of old newspapers, from which she has been diligently and judiciously clipping. But the clippings, it is only fair to add, are connected by a well-informed and easy narrative, and each whole is a story told with tolerance and humor and a pleasant contagious gratitude.”
+ − New Repub 23:313 Ag 11 ’20 1350w + No Am 213:139 Ja ’21 580w
“Miss Courtney has done her work well; her brief biographies are intelligent, sympathetic, and discriminating, and are interesting reading.”
+ Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 130w + − Review 3:322 O 13 ’20 500w
“Mrs Courtney’s book is well worth reading. We regret its omissions, and it does not go very deep; but as a record of facts and of sympathetic interpretation it is interesting.”
+ − Sat R 129:435 My 8 ’20 900w
“Their stories are intelligently and interestingly told.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 520w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p184 Mr 18 ’20 880w
COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL MADISON. Colonial architecture of Salem. *$8 Little 728
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